CVE-2017-1000050 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2017-1000050?

CVE-2017-1000050 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

JasPer 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer exception in the function jp2_encode which failed to check to see if the image contained at least one component resulting in a denial-of-service.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1000050?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Jasper Project Jasper, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1000050?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2017-1000050 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1000050 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-1000050, GHSA-29wp-q2r7-4jqv, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000050.