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high 7.1

CVE-2020-14152 json

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 cau…

published 2020-06-15 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-6309

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • ijg libjpeg 9d
  • libjpeg-turbo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.5.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14152

  • libjpeg9 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1:9b-1ubuntu1+esm1
  • libjpeg6b Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 6b1-4ubuntu1+esm1
  • libjpeg6b Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1:6b2-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • libjpeg-turbo Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.3.0-0ubuntu2.1+esm2
  • libjpeg-turbo Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.4.2-0ubuntu3.4+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14152

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • fltk Azure Linux 3.0 1.3.8-1

azure linux advisories AZL-45315

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-14152 updated cvss 7.1

libjpeg: improper handling of max_memory_to_use setting can lead to excessive memory consumption

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libjpeg
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libjpeg-turbo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 turbojpeg, libjpeg-turbo, libjpeg-turbo-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 turbojpeg, libjpeg-turbo, libjpeg-turbo-utils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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