CVE-2017-1000050: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

JasPer 2.0.12 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer exception in the function jp2_encode which failed to check to see if the image contained at least one component resulting in a denial-of-service.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only; version 33 only
• Jasper Project Jasper: version 2.0.12 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2017-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.