CVE-2016-9398 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via assertion failure in the JasPer image library.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2016-9398?

CVE-2016-9398 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Mar 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The jpc_floorlog2 function in jpc_math.c in JasPer before 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9398?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Jasper Project Jasper, Opensuse Leap, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit.

How do I fix CVE-2016-9398?

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-2016-9398 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9398 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-98gc-chhf-m9gv, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9398.

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