CVE-2007-2721

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-2721
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-05-16 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe jpc_qcx_getcompparms function in jpc/jpc_cs.c for the JasPer JPEG-2000 library (libjasper) before 1.900 allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly corrupt the heap via malformed image files, as originally demonstrated using imagemagick convert.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Jasper Jpeg-2000 Jasper Jpeg-2000 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
JasPer JPC_QCX_GetCompParm Function JP2 File Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Ubuntu update for jasper - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mandriva update for jasper - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:164 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2036-1 jasper af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
#413033 - jasper: Segfault on malformed image input. - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:209 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Mandriva update for netpbm - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
JasPer "jpc_qcx_getcompparms" Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
USN-501-1: jasper vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Debian update for jasper - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:208 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
USN-501-2: Ghostscript vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
osvdb.org/36137 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Ubuntu update for ghostscript and gs-gpl - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
#413041 - jasper: Heap corruption on malformed image input. - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
#413041 - jasper: Heap corruption on malformed image input. - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:142 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
#413041 - jasper: Heap corruption on malformed image input. - Debian Bug report logs MITRE bugs.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-10-23Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of ghostscript as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4 or 5 as they do not include a bundled JasPer library.
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