vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-14498: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 7, 2019
Added
Nov 8, 2019
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

get_8bit_row in rdbmp.c in libjpeg-turbo through 1.5.90 and MozJPEG through 3.3.1 allows attackers to cause a 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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libjpeg-turbo
Title
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