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Ubuntu: USN-2919-1 (CVE-2016-2116): JasPer vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2919-1 (CVE-2016-2116): JasPer vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/03/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libjasper1

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