Out-of-bounds read in libjpeg-turbo - CVE-2018-19664
Published: January 13, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24208
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19664
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read in the put_pixel_rows() function in wrbmp.c, as demonstrated by djpeg. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
libjpeg-turbo
libjpeg-turbo (Ubuntu package)
mingw-libjpeg-turbo
libjpeg-turbo
Fedora
libjpeg-turbo (Ubuntu package)
mingw-libjpeg-turbo
libjpeg-turbo
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2018-19664
Install update from vendor's website.
libjpeg-turbo - update to 2.0.2
libjpeg-turbo (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.3, 1.5.2-0ubuntu5.18.04.3, 2.0.1-0ubuntu2.2
mingw-libjpeg-turbo - update to 2.0.0-2.fc29
libjpeg-turbo - update to 2.0.0-3.fc29
libjpeg-turbo (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.3, 1.5.2-0ubuntu5.18.04.3, 2.0.1-0ubuntu2.2
mingw-libjpeg-turbo - update to 2.0.0-2.fc29
libjpeg-turbo - update to 2.0.0-3.fc29