Denial of Service Vulnerability in JasPer 1.900.5 via Crafted BMP Image

CVE-2016-8884 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The bmp_getdata function in libjasper/bmp/bmp_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by calling the imginfo command with a crafted BMP image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8690.

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