CVE-2016-2116

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in the jas_iccprof_createfrombuf function in JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ICC color profile in a JPEG 2000 image file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
jasper: through 1.900.1

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3508
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/03/12
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84133
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2919-1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/+bug/1547865
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3508
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/03/12
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84133
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2919-1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/+bug/1547865

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