CVE-2022-28041

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

stb_image.h v2.27 was discovered to contain an integer overflow via the function stbi__jpeg_decode_block_prog_dc. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
nothings stb: 2.27

References

https://github.com/nothings/stb/issues/1292
https://github.com/nothings/stb/pull/1297
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00045.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2G6JJJQ5JABTPF5H2L5FQGLILYLIGPW6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52ZIQAFEG7A6TO526OJ7OA4GSEZQ2WEG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5FXLM5XL77SNH4IPTSXOQD7XL4E2EMIN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I4HXIWU5HBOADXZVMREHT4YTO5WVYXEQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J72YJQ3R5MG23GECPUCLAWPPZ6TZPG7U/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JIRW5D4CJIDS6FHOGHSS42SSDDKQMXPN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MMBCMJGAZRQS55SNECUWZSC5URVLEZ5R/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OHTD76NDEN77KCPI3XGGK2VVSA25WWEG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SEQGDVH43YW7AG7TRU2CTU5TMIYP27WP/

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