CVE-2007-2721

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The jpc_qcx_getcompparms function in jpc/jpc_cs.c for the JasPer JPEG-2000 library (libjasper) before 1.900 allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly corrupt the heap via malformed image files, as originally demonstrated using imagemagick convert.

Affected products

Jasper Jpeg-2000: through 1.701.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413033
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413041
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413041%3Bmsg=88
http://osvdb.org/36137
http://secunia.com/advisories/25287
http://secunia.com/advisories/25703
http://secunia.com/advisories/26516
http://secunia.com/advisories/27319
http://secunia.com/advisories/27489
http://secunia.com/advisories/39505
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2036
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:129

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