USN-5553-1: libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities

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08 December 2022

08 December 2022

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2016-3616,CVE-2018-11813,CVE-2018-14498,CVE-2020-14152,CVE-2020-17541

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly handling EOF characters, which could lead to excessive memory consumption through the execution of a large loop. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-11813) It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly performing bounds check operations, which could lead to a heap-based buffer overread. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-14498) It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly limiting the amount of main memory being consumed by the system during decompression or multi-pass compression operations, which could lead to excessive memory consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-14152) It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly setting variable sizes when performing certain kinds of encoding operations, which could lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-17541) Update Instructions: Run `sudo ua fix USN-5553-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libjpeg-turbo8 - 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.4+esm1 libjpeg-turbo-progs - 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.4+esm1 libjpeg-turbo8-dev - 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.4+esm1 libturbojpeg - 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.4+esm1 libjpeg-turbo-test - 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.4+esm1 Available with UA Infra or UA Desktop: https://ubuntu.com/advantage

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2016-3616, CVE-2018-11813, CVE-2018-14498, CVE-2020-14152, CVE-2020-17541

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • All versions prior to 2.0.0
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.25
    • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.16
    • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.12
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.3

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • 2.0.0
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.7.25
    • 2.8.16
    • 2.9.12
    • 2.10.3

References

History

2022-12-08: Initial vulnerability report published.