CVE-2015-5203 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5203?

CVE-2015-5203 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 2 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Double free vulnerability in the jasper_image_stop_load function in JasPer 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted JPEG 2000 image file.

Weakness: CWE-415

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5203?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Jasper Project Jasper, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Opensuse Project Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5203?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2015-5203 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5203 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8p3p-rp99-mrhw, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5203.