CVE-2012-2806

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the get_sos function in jdmarker.c in libjpeg-turbo 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large component count in the header of a JPEG image.

Affected products

D.R.Commander Libjpeg-Turbo: 1.2.0

References

http://libjpeg-turbo.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libjpeg-turbo?view=revision&revision=830
http://osvdb.org/84040
http://secunia.com/advisories/49883
http://secunia.com/advisories/50753
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-13.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:121
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/17/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54480
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759802
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826849
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76952
http://libjpeg-turbo.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libjpeg-turbo?view=revision&revision=830

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