RHSA-2017:1208 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: jasper security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 10, 2017
Updated · June 30, 2026
Topic
An update for jasper is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard.
Security Fix(es):
Multiple flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-8654, CVE-2016-9560, CVE-2016-10249, CVE-2015-5203, CVE-2015-5221, CVE-2016-1577, CVE-2016-8690, CVE-2016-8693, CVE-2016-8884, CVE-2016-8885, CVE-2016-9262, CVE-2016-9591)
Multiple flaws were found in the way JasPer decoded JPEG 2000 image files. A specially crafted file could cause an application using JasPer to crash. (CVE-2016-1867, CVE-2016-2089, CVE-2016-2116, CVE-2016-8691, CVE-2016-8692, CVE-2016-8883, CVE-2016-9387, CVE-2016-9388, CVE-2016-9389, CVE-2016-9390, CVE-2016-9391, CVE-2016-9392, CVE-2016-9393, CVE-2016-9394, CVE-2016-9583, CVE-2016-9600, CVE-2016-10248, CVE-2016-10251)
Red Hat would like to thank Liu Bingchang (IIE) for reporting CVE-2016-8654, CVE-2016-9583, CVE-2016-9591, and CVE-2016-9600; Gustavo Grieco for reporting CVE-2015-5203; and Josselin Feist for reporting CVE-2015-5221.