CVE-2016-8884: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bmp_getdata function in libjasper/bmp/bmp_dec.c in JasPer 1.900.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by calling the imginfo command with a crafted BMP image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8690.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 23 only; version 24 only
• Jasper Project Jasper: version 1.900.5 only

Published 2017-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.