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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-75466

medium Nessus Plugin ID 340810

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - libjpeg-turbo 3.2.0 contains an integer division-by-zero vulnerability in the PNG loader. When processing a valid indexed-color PNG image with a non-gray palette through tj3LoadImage12() or tj3LoadImage16() using the default pixel format, the application may trigger a division-by-zero in alloc_sarray(), causing a SIGFPE and denial of service. (CVE-2026-75466)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-75466

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 340810

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_75466.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/26/2026

Updated: 8/31/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.65

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-75466

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjpeg-turbo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjpeg6b, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjpeg9

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-75466