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CVE-2016-8887

• 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: none known
• Published: 2017-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The jp2_colr_destroy function in libjasper/jp2/jp2_cod.c in JasPer before 1.900.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23, 24
• jasper: through 1.900.9

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93835
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/18/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_colr_destroy-jp2_cod-c
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388828
• https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/e24bdc716c3327b067c551bc6cfb97fd2370358d
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22FCKKHQCQ3S6TZY5G44EFDTMWOJXJRD/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EGI2FZQLOTSZI3VA4ECJERI74SMNQDL4/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93835

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