CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-1000050

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 17, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
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
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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

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
JasperJasper_project2.0.12 (including)2.0.12 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatjasper-0:1.900.1-33.el7*
JasperUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
JasperUbuntutrusty*
JasperUbuntuxenial*
JasperUbuntuyakkety*

Potential Mitigations

References