Medium
Security advisory
Memory leak in the jas_iccprof_createfrombuf function in JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ICC color profile in a JPEG 2000 image file.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-2116
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 08:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Memory leak in the jas_iccprof_createfrombuf function in JasPer 1.900.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted ICC color profile in a JPEG 2000 image file.
osv:CVE-2016-2116
Complete source record
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