Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mdadams/jasper package, versions [,2.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.17% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MDADAMSJASPER-2366885
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-9391  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mdadams/jasper to version 2.0.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The jpc_bitstream_getbits function in jpc_bs.c in JasPer before 2.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a very large integer.

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