CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-1000050

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 17, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

JasPer 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer exception in the function jp2_encode which failed to check to see if the image contained at least one component resulting in a denial-of-service.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jasper Jasper_project 2.0.12 (including) 2.0.12 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat jasper-0:1.900.1-33.el7 *
Jasper Ubuntu trusty *
Jasper Ubuntu xenial *
Jasper Ubuntu yakkety *

Potential Mitigations

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