Vulnerability · Published Aug 31, 2022 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-35538

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity null pointer dereference in libjpeg-turbo. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 21% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 78.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A crafted input file could cause a null pointer dereference in jcopy_sample_rows() when processed by libjpeg-turbo.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20libjpeg-turbo2.0.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-35538
Alpine:v3.21libjpeg-turbo2.0.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-35538
Alpine:v3.22libjpeg-turbo2.0.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-35538
Alpine:v3.23libjpeg-turbo2.0.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-35538
Alpine:v3.24libjpeg-turbo2.0.6-r0ALPINE-CVE-2020-35538
Debian:12libjpeg-turbo1:2.0.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35538
Debian:13libjpeg-turbo1:2.0.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35538
Debian:14libjpeg-turbo1:2.0.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35538

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo 2.0.5 onwards

Weakness: CWE-476

References