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CVE-2011-4516

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the jpc_cox_getcompparms function in libjasper/jpc/jpc_cs.c in JasPer 1.900.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted numrlvls value in a coding style default (COD) marker segment in a JPEG2000 file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10
• Debian Linux: 6.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 15, 16
• jasper: 1.900.1
• Oracle Corporation Outside In Technology: 8.3.5, 8.3.7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071458.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071561.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00010.html
• http://osvdb.org/77595
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0698.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47193
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47306
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47353
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21660640
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2371
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/887409
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2012-366304.html

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