SB2018061806 - Multiple vulnerabilities in libjpeg-turbo

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SB2018061806 - Multiple vulnerabilities in libjpeg-turbo

Published: June 18, 2018 Updated: January 13, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2018061806
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Division by zero (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1152)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to divide by zero error when processing a crafted BMP image. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted file to the application and crash it.


2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14498)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when processing a crafted 8-bit BMP in which one or more of the color indices is out of range for the number of palette entries within the get_8bit_row in rdbmp.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, pass it to the application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the affected application.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References