CVE-2016-2116 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the jas_iccprof_createfrombuf function within JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier, impacting products like Canonical Jasper and Ubuntu Linux. An attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted ICC color profile in a JPEG 2000 image, leading to a denial of service through excessive memory consumption. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.7), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and low privileges (PR:L), with a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 1.900.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:jasper_project:jasper:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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