CVE-2016-8690: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 23 only
• Jasper Project Jasper: up to and including 1.900.29

Published 2017-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.