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Unscored USN-5553-1 4 CVEs

libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities

Published Aug 8, 2022 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly handling EOF characters,
which could lead to excessive memory consumption through the execution of a
large loop. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2018-11813)

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly performing bounds
check operations, which could lead to a heap-based buffer overread. If a user
or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-14498)

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly limiting the amount of
main memory being consumed by the system during decompression or multi-pass
compression operations, which could lead to excessive memory consumption. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2020-14152)

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly setting variable sizes
when performing certain kinds of encoding operations, which could lead to a
stack-based buffer overflow. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-17541)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS libjpeg-turbo 1.3.0-0ubuntu2.1+esm2
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.4+esm1

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11813
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14498
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14152
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-17541