Security advisory

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  "id": "70b79f98b4f0ded204db039717112d50079357df26a67280391d2d846ee023f3",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8693",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-8693",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-8693",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
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                {
                  "last_affected": "e85c498d29cde9d5062e7aaae5a6bf018e80552d"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "44a524e367597af58d6265ae2014468b334d0309"
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                        "last_affected": "1.900.5"
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
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                    "range": [
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
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            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "version-1.900.5",
            "version-1.900.4",
            "version-1.900.3",
            "version-1.900.2",
            "version-1.900.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8693.json",
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                "source": "https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/commit/44a524e367597af58d6265ae2014468b334d0309",
                "target": {
                  "file": "src/libjasper/base/jas_stream.c"
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                "source": "https://github.com/jasper-software/jasper/commit/44a524e367597af58d6265ae2014468b334d0309",
                "target": {
                  "file": "src/libjasper/base/jas_stream.c",
                  "function": "mem_resize"
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                "deprecated": false,
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            ],
            "vanir_signatures_modified": "2026-10-20T13:14:47Z"
          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:14:47.131220672Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22FCKKHQCQ3S6TZY5G44EFDTMWOJXJRD/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208",
        "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/16/jasper-double-free-in-mem_close-jas_stream-c/",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385507",
        "https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/44a524e367597af58d6265ae2014468b334d0309"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
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              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "23"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "23"
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                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:opensuse",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "13.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "13.2"
                  }
                ],
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-8693",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387382,
  "published_at": "2017-02-15T19:59:00.923+00:00"
}