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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2017-6850 json

The jp2_cdef_destroy function in jp2_cod.c in JasPer before 2.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer deref…

published 2017-03-15 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15904

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The jp2_cdef_destroy function in jp2_cod.c in JasPer before 2.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted image.

Patch / fix

  • jasper Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.900.1-14ubuntu3.5
  • jasper Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.900.1-debian1-2.4ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6850

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • jasper SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 1.900.14-194.1
  • jasper SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.900.14-134.32.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0953-1SUSE-SU-2017:0946-1

  • jasper openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.0.33-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10869-1

  • jasper Arch Linux 2.0.14-1

arch linux advisories AVG-206

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-6850 updated cvss 7.0

jasper: uninitialized pointer use in jp2_cdef_destroy()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 netpbm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 jasper, jasper-libs, jasper-utils Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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