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CVE-2017-6850

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6850 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting JasPer versions prior to 2.0.13, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the jp2_cdef_destroy function when processing a crafted image. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to trigger, leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, indicating a low likelihood of widespread exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jasper_project:jasper:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-6850Moderate

jasper: uninitialized pointer use in jp2_cdef_destroy()

Jan 25, 2017

References

blogs.gentoo.org / ago/2017/01/25/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_cdef_destroy-jp2_cod-c
PatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
github.com / mdadams/jasper/commit/e96fc4fdd525fa0ede28074a7e2b1caf94b58b0d
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / mdadams/jasper/issues/112
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3693-1