Out-of-bounds read in jpegoptim - CVE-2022-32325

 

Out-of-bounds read in jpegoptim - CVE-2022-32325

Published: August 18, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79698
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32325
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 a boundary condition in jpegoptim.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

jpegoptim
Fedora
openEuler
jpegoptim
jpegoptim-debuginfo
jpegoptim-debugsource

How to mitigate CVE-2022-32325

Install updates from vendor's website.

jpegoptim - addressed in versions 1.5.1-1.el9, 1.5.1-1.fc37
jpegoptim - update to 1.5.5-1
jpegoptim-debuginfo - update to 1.5.5-1
jpegoptim-debugsource - update to 1.5.5-1

External References

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