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CVE-2016-10250

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The jp2_colr_destroy function in jp2_cod.c in JasPer before 1.900.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging incorrect cleanup of JP2 box data on error. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8887.

Affected products

• jasper: through 1.900.12

References

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/23/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_colr_destroy-jp2_cod-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2016-8887/
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/bdfe95a6e81ffb4b2fad31a76b57943695beed20
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/23/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_colr_destroy-jp2_cod-c-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2016-8887/
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/bdfe95a6e81ffb4b2fad31a76b57943695beed20
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/

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