CVE-2016-9600

Publication date 12 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
jasper	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.900.1-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.900.1-14ubuntu3.5
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
jasper	Upstream: a632c6b

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

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

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3693-1
JasPer vulnerabilities
27 June 2018

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9600