CVE-2016-8693 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-8693?

CVE-2016-8693 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, 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

Double free vulnerability in the mem_close function in jas_stream.c in JasPer before 1.900.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image to the imginfo command.

Weakness: CWE-415

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8693?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2016-8693?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2016-8693 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8693 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-68fr-g7g6-87xw, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8693.