Rocky Linux 9 : libjpeg-turbo (RLSA-2023:1068)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172338

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:1068 advisory.

- The PPM reader in libjpeg-turbo through 2.0.90 mishandles use of tjLoadImage for loading a 16-bit binary PPM file into a grayscale buffer and loading a 16-bit binary PGM file into an RGB buffer. This is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the get_word_rgb_row function in rdppm.c. (CVE-2021-46822)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:1068

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2100044

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 172338

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-1068.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 3/9/2023

Updated: 11/6/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46822

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libjpeg-turbo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libjpeg-turbo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libjpeg-turbo-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libjpeg-turbo-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libjpeg-turbo-utils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libjpeg-turbo-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:turbojpeg, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:turbojpeg-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:turbojpeg-devel, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-46822