CVE-2015-5203

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double free vulnerability in the jasper_image_stop_load function in JasPer 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted JPEG 2000 image file.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 23, 24, 25
jasper: 1.900.17
openSUSE Leap: 42.2
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Opensuse Project Leap: 42.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-11/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-11/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-11/msg00064.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/16/2
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254242
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00023.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3QIZNTZDXOJR5BTRZKCS3GVHVZV2PWHH/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AXWV22WGSQFDRPE7G6ECGP3QXS2V2A2M/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UNLVBZWDEXZCFWOBZ3YVEQINMRBRX5QV/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-07
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/

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