CVE-2016-8691 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-8691?

CVE-2016-8691 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 15 Feb 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

The jpc_dec_process_siz function in libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer before 1.900.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted XRsiz value in a BMP image to the imginfo command.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8691?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Jasper Project Jasper.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8691?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-8691 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8691 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-jrgp-6q23-4hg8, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8691.