CVE-2008-3521

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Race condition in the jas_stream_tmpfile function in libjasper/base/jas_stream.c in JasPer 1.900.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (program exit) by creating the appropriate tmp.XXXXXXXXXX temporary file, which causes Jasper to exit. NOTE: this was originally reported as a symlink issue, but this was incorrect. NOTE: some vendors dispute the severity of this issue, but it satisfies CVE's requirements for inclusion.

Affected products

jasper: 1.900.1

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=163282&action=view
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222819
http://secunia.com/advisories/34391
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:142
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:164
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31470
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-742-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3521
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45622
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=163282&action=view
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222819
http://secunia.com/advisories/34391

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