JasPer is vulnerable to denial of service(DoS) attacks. A user can exploit a flaw in the jpc_dec_tiledecode function in jpc_dec.c which allows a remote attacker to have unspecified impact via a crafted image file. This leads to heap-based-buffer overflow that may result in application crash.
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3827
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93838
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1208
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/23/jasper-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-jpc_dec_tiledecode-jpc_dec-c/
github.com/mdadams/jasper/commit/988f8365f7d8ad8073b6786e433d34c553ecf568