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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-2116: Security patch for jasper (ALAS-2017-836)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-2116: Security patch for jasper (ALAS-2017-836)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/07/2017
Modified
02/02/2018

Description

Memory leak in the jas_iccprof_createfrombuf function in JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ICC color profile in a JPEG 2000 image file.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-jasper

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