Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2016-9396 is an availability issue in JasPer, an image-processing library. A remote attacker may be able to trigger an assertion failure while JasPer processes certain JPEG-2000 content, causing the affected process to stop. The provided sources describe denial of service, not data theft or code execution. Exposure is most likely where servers, desktop tools, or automated pipelines process untrusted JPEG-2000 or JasPer-supported image files. Business risk is higher if image parsing happens in customer-facing upload, conversion, thumbnailing, scanning, or document-processing paths. Prioritize remediation for systems that process user-supplied images or documents, especially internet-facing services. For isolated internal tools, handle through normal patch cycles. The main supported impact is service disruption, so urgency depends on how important affected image-processing paths are to operations. Mitigation focus: Identify systems and applications using JasPer or OS packages that include it.; Apply vendor updates from Red Hat, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, or the relevant package maintainer.; Reduce exposure of JasPer processing to untrusted remote image content where practical..
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/11/16/jasper-multiple-assertion-failureCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396978CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- RHSA-2018:3253CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2018:3505CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485272CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- USN-3693-1CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
- FEDORA-2021-2b151590d9CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
- FEDORA-2021-0a6290f865CVE reference · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
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