CVE-2016-8654

Publication date 30 November 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A heap-buffer overflow vulnerability was found in QMFB code in JPC codec caused by buffer being allocated with too small size. jasper versions before 2.0.0 are affected.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
jasper	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2build0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.900.1-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.900.1-14ubuntu3.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

fixed in (1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2)

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
jasper	Upstream: 4a59cfa

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3295-1
JasPer vulnerabilities
18 May 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8654