CVE-2017-6850

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The jp2_cdef_destroy function in jp2_cod.c in JasPer before 2.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted image.

Affected products

jasper: through 2.0.12

References

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/25/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_cdef_destroy-jp2_cod-c/
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/e96fc4fdd525fa0ede28074a7e2b1caf94b58b0d
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/112
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/25/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_cdef_destroy-jp2_cod-c/
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/e96fc4fdd525fa0ede28074a7e2b1caf94b58b0d
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/112
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/

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