Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jasper  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-JASPER-343075
  • published23 Mar 2017
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-9399  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jasper package and not the jasper package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The calcstepsizes function in jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.