CVE-2016-1577

Public on 2016-04-13

Modified on 2017-07-25

Description

Double free vulnerability in the jas_iccattrval_destroy function in JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ICC color profile in a JPEG 2000 image file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-8137.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

7.0

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	jasper	2017-06-06 16:49	ALAS-2017-836

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	5.1	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	7.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	7.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2016-1577 Mitre: CVE-2016-1577 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity