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CVE-2016-8654

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: yes
• Published: 2018-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

A heap-buffer overflow vulnerability was found in QMFB code in JPC codec caused by buffer being allocated with too small size. jasper versions before 2.0.0 are affected.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• jasper: before 2.0.0 — fixed in 2.0.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.3, 7.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: jasper 2.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94583
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8654
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/4a59cfaf9ab3d48fca4a15c0d2674bf7138e3d1a
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/93
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/94
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3785
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94583
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8654
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/4a59cfaf9ab3d48fca4a15c0d2674bf7138e3d1a
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/93

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