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CVE-2016-8690

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The bmp_getdata function in libjasper/bmp/bmp_dec.c in JasPer before 1.900.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted BMP image in an imginfo command.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
• jasper: through 1.900.29

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/23/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/14
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93590
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/16/jasper-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-bmp_getdata-bmp_dec-c/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385499
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/8f62b4761711d036fd8964df256b938c809b7fca
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00023.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22FCKKHQCQ3S6TZY5G44EFDTMWOJXJRD/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/23/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/14
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93590

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