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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-96778

high Nessus Plugin ID 370275

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.

 - Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.4.0 until 13.0.0, ImagingJpegEncode() in src/libImaging/JpegEncode.c can call jpeg_write_marker() for a JPEG COM comment when an ICC profile has exactly filled the 65536-byte encoder buffer. libjpeg writes one byte before checking the exhausted free_in_buffer counter, which then wraps and permits the attacker-controlled comment and subsequent compressed image data to overwrite adjacent heap memory. Re-saving an untrusted image as JPEG while preserving its ICC profile and forwarded comment can crash the process and may enable code execution in suitable runtime and heap layouts. This issue is fixed in version 13.0.0. (CVE-2026-96778)

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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-96778

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 370275

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_96778.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/22/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.52

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-96778

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 5.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pillow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pillow

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-96778