Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8690",
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    "title": "CVE-2016-8690",
    "summary": "The bmp_getdata function in libjasper/bmp/bmp_dec.c in JasPer before 1.900.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted BMP image in an imginfo command.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:14:47.992896178Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00023.html",
        "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-two-null-pointer-dereference-in-bmp_getdata-bmp_dec-c/",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385499",
        "https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/8f62b4761711d036fd8964df256b938c809b7fca"
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            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387383,
  "published_at": "2017-02-15T19:59:00.75+00:00"
}