Buffer overflow in libjpeg - CVE-2020-14152

Vulnerability identifier: #VU29121

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14152

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in "jpeg_mem_available()" function in "jmemnobs.c" file in djpeg. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and gain access to sensitive information or cause a denial of service condition on the target system.

libjpeg
Ubuntu
libjpeg-turbo8 (Ubuntu package)
libjpeg-turbo-progs (Ubuntu package)
libturbojpeg (Ubuntu package)
libjpeg-turbo-test (Ubuntu package)
libjpeg62 (Ubuntu package)
Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager

Install updates from vendor's website.

libjpeg - update to 9d
libjpeg-turbo8 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.4.20ubuntu3.4+esm1
libjpeg-turbo-progs (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.4.20ubuntu3.4+esm1
libturbojpeg (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.4.20ubuntu3.4+esm1
libjpeg-turbo-test (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.4.20ubuntu3.4+esm1
Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes - update to 2.0.0
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - addressed in versions 2.7.25, 2.8.16, 2.9.12, 2.10.39
libjpeg62 (Ubuntu package) - update to 6 b14ubuntu1+esm1

• http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9d.tar.gz
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/727908

• Multiple vulnerabilities in libjpeg
• Ubuntu update for libjpeg6b
• Ubuntu update for libjpeg-turbo
• VMware Tanzu products update for libjpeg-turbo