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jasper: crash in jpc_qcx_getcompparms

Published May 16, 2007

Description

The jpc_qcx_getcompparms function in jpc/jpc_cs.c for the JasPer JPEG-2000 library (libjasper) before 1.900 allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly corrupt the heap via malformed image files, as originally demonstrated using imagemagick convert.

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 or 5 as they do not include a bundled JasPer library.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 16, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved May 16, 2007
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Mar 1, 2007