Debian DLA-2302-1 : libjpeg-turbo security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 139245

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were fixed in libjpeg-turbo, a widely used library for handling JPEG files.

CVE-2018-1152

Denial of service vulnerability caused by a divide by zero when processing a crafted BMP image in TJBench.

CVE-2018-14498

Denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted 8-bit BMP in which one or more of the color indices is out of range for the number of palette entries.

CVE-2020-13790

Heap-based buffer over-read via a malformed PPM input file.

CVE-2020-14152

jpeg_mem_available() did not honor the max_memory_to_use setting, possibly causing excessive memory consumption.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.5.1-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libjpeg-turbo packages.

For the detailed security status of libjpeg-turbo please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libjpeg-turbo

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00033.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/libjpeg-turbo

http://www.nessus.org/u?9774e827

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-17

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139245

File Name: debian_DLA-2302.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2020

Updated: 2/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14152

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13790

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjpeg62-turbo-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libturbojpeg0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libturbojpeg0-dev, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjpeg-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjpeg-turbo-progs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjpeg62-turbo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1152, CVE-2018-14498, CVE-2020-13790, CVE-2020-14152