CVE-2017-5500 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the application using JasPer by exploiting a left shift of a negative value in the JPEG-2000 decoder.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-5500?
CVE-2017-5500 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Jasper Project Jasper, published on 1 Mar 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
libjasper/jpc/jpc_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving left shift of a negative value.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5500?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Jasper Project Jasper.
How do I fix CVE-2017-5500?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-5500 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2017-5500 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5500 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Jasper Project Jasper
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7655-hvf9-c7q3, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5500.