CVE-2016-8692

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-369

Description

The jpc_dec_process_siz function in libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer before 1.900.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted YRsiz value in a BMP image to the imginfo command.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 25
jasper: through 1.900.3

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3785
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/93588
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/16/jasper-two-divide-by-zero-in-jpc_dec_process_siz-jpc_dec-c/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385502
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/d8c2604cd438c41ec72aff52c16ebd8183068020
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/THLEZURI4D24PRM7SMASC5I25IAWXXTM/
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3785
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/23/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/14

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