Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libjpeg-turbo package, versions [,2.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBJPEGTURBO-2317738
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed7 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Mar 2019

CVE-2018-14498  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libjpeg-turbo to version 2.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read get_8bit_row in rdbmp.c in libjpeg-turbo through 1.5.90 and MozJPEG through 3.3.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted 8-bit BMP in which one or more of the color indices is out of range for the number of palette entries.

CVSS Scores

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