Bug 602848 (CVE-2016-9591)

Summary:	<media-libs/jasper-2.0.12: use-after-free on heap in jas_matrix_destroy (CVE-2016-9591)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	ingrix
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	sci
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/105
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ingrix 2016-12-16 16:58:19 UTC

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Description
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Heap-use-after-free vulnerability in jasper-2.0.8. The vulnerability exists in code responsible for re-encoding the decoded input image file to a JP2 image. The vulnerability is caused by not setting related pointers to be null after the pointers are freed (i.e. missing Setting-Pointer-Null operations after free). The vulnerability can further cause double-free.

This bug has been assigned to CVE-2016-9591

References
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https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/105

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-06-03 20:26:11 UTC

Added to an existing GLSA.

Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-07-08 12:39:55 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201707-07 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-07
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).