Use After Free Affecting mdadams/jasper package, versions [,2.0.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MDADAMSJASPER-2366915
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Mar 2018

CVE-2016-9591  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mdadams/jasper to version 2.0.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. JasPer before version 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a use-after-free in the way it decodes certain JPEG 2000 image files resulting in a crash on the application using JasPer.

CVSS Scores

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