CVE-2016-8693

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double free vulnerability in the mem_close function in jas_stream.c in JasPer before 1.900.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image to the imginfo command.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
jasper: through 1.900.5
Opensuse: 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-11/msg00010.html
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/93587
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/16/jasper-double-free-in-mem_close-jas_stream-c/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385507
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/44a524e367597af58d6265ae2014468b334d0309
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22FCKKHQCQ3S6TZY5G44EFDTMWOJXJRD/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-11/msg00010.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3785

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