CVE-2016-2116

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Published 2016-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.7

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.7

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

67%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
arch		fixed	`1.900.1-15`
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
jasper_project	jasper	`{"endIncluding":"1.900.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.