CVE-2017-5499

Publication date 1 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Integer overflow in libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
jasper 18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

doesn't crash without ubsan enabled, marking as ignored no fix as of 2018-06-19

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

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

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