CVE-2016-8693 - Double Free

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Demo Examples

Double Free

CWE-415

Double Free

CWE-415

While contrived, this code should be exploitable on Linux distributions which do not ship with heap-chunk check summing turned on.


               
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free(buf1R2);

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2017-02-15 19:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Jasper Project Jasper

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

Fedora Project Fedora 23

23

References

openSUSE-SU-2016:2722

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3785

[oss-security] 20160823 Fuzzing jasper

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20161015 Re: Fuzzing jasper

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

93587

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

RHSA-2017:1208

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/16/jasper-double-free-in-mem_close-jas_stream-c/

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385507

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/44a524e367597af58d6265ae2014468b334d0309

Patch

FEDORA-2016-6c789ba91d

Third Party Advisory

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