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CVE-2018-14498

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 28
• libjpeg-turbo: through 1.5.90
• Mozilla Mozjpeg: through 3.3.1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00015.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2052
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3705
• https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/commit/9c78a04df4e44ef6487eee99c4258397f4fdca55
• https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/258
• https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/issues/299
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00021.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00033.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F7YP4QUEYGHI4Q7GIAVFVKWQ7DJMBYLU/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4190-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00015.html

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