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An issue was discovered in libjpeg through 2020021. An...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An issue was discovered in libjpeg through 2020021. An uncaught floating point exception in the function ACLosslessScan::ParseMCU() located in aclosslessscan.cpp. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 20, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

Incorrect Comparison

The product compares two entities in a security-relevant context, but the comparison is incorrect, which may lead to resultant weaknesses. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-39514

GHSA ID

GHSA-h37c-4pg2-6xq6

Source code

No known source code

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