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CVE-2016-9600

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

JasPer before version 2.0.10 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference was found in the decoded creation of JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
• jasper: before 2.0.10 — fixed in 2.0.10
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.4, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.3, 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: jasper 2.0.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410026
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410026
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/

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