CVE-2020-14152

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

In IJG JPEG (aka libjpeg) before 9d, jpeg_mem_available() in jmemnobs.c in djpeg does not honor the max_memory_to_use setting, possibly causing excessive memory consumption.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Ijg Libjpeg: before 9d — fixed in 9d

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ijg Libjpeg 9d. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9d.tar.gz
https://bugs.gentoo.org/727908
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00033.html
http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9d.tar.gz
https://bugs.gentoo.org/727908
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00033.html

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