Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-9591  

A heap-use-after-free vulnerability has been found in jasper. The vulnerability exists in code responsible for re-encoding the decoded input image file to a J2P image. The vulnerability is caused by not setting related pointers to be null after the pointers are freed (i.e. missing Setting-Pointer-Null operations after free). The vulnerability can further cause double-free.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A heap-use-after-free vulnerability has been found in jasper. The vulnerability exists in code responsible for re-encoding the decoded input image file to a J2P image. The vulnerability is caused by not setting related pointers to be null after the pointers are freed (i.e. missing Setting-Pointer-Null operations after free). The vulnerability can further cause double-free.

AVG-69 jasper 2.0.10-1 2.0.12-1 High Fixed

14 Mar 2017 ASA-201703-9 AVG-69 jasper High multiple issues

https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/105
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/16/3
https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/03fe49ab96bf65fea784cdc256507ea88267fc7c