CVE-2016-8887

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.17% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 81.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-03-23 18:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:35Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-10-22

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-476NULL Pointer DereferenceBase
• CWE-456Missing Initialization of a VariableVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c224ee1818318dac21882c752eb2ad015339fa34df4e91dec3e32e02c6dea77c

• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-6c789ba91dhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22FCKKHQCQ3S6TZY5G44EFDTMWOJXJRD/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• www.securityfocus.com93835http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93835vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• blogs.gentoo.orghttps://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/18/jasper-null-pointer-dereference-in-jp2_colr_destroy-jp2_cod-cx_refsource_MISC
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-e0f0d48142https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EGI2FZQLOTSZI3VA4ECJERI74SMNQDL4/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388828x_refsource_CONFIRM
• usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3693-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3693-1/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161022 Re: jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_colr_destroy (jp2_cod.c)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161023 jasper: NULL pointer dereference in jp2_colr_destroy (jp2_cod.c) (incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8887)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/23/6mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• github.comhttps://github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/e24bdc716c3327b067c551bc6cfb97fd2370358dx_refsource_CONFIRM