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Ubuntu 19.04: USN-4190-1 Moderate: Libjpeg-Turbo Security Flaws

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Numerous vulnerabilities addressed in libjpeg-turbo within Ubuntu: risks of data leakage and arbitrary code execution mitigated.
Several security issues were fixed in libjpeg-turbo.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in libjpeg-turbo.

Software Description:

- libjpeg-turbo: library for handling JPEG files

Details:

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain BMP images.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

(CVE-2018-14498)

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain JPEG images.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2018-19664)

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain BMP images.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This

issue only affected Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2018-20330)

It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo incorrectly handled certain JPEG images.

An attacker could possibly cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2019-2201)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory arbitrary code execution Ubuntu information exposure libjpeg-turbo

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
  libjpeg-turbo8                  2.0.1-0ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libjpeg-turbo8                  1.5.2-0ubuntu5.18.04.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libjpeg-turbo8                  1.4.2-0ubuntu3.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4190-1

CVE-2018-14498, CVE-2018-19664, CVE-2018-20330, CVE-2019-2201

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November 13, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory arbitrary code execution Ubuntu information exposure libjpeg-turbo

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libjpeg-turbo/2.0.1-0ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libjpeg-turbo/1.5.2-0ubuntu5.18.04.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libjpeg-turbo/1.4.2-0ubuntu3.3

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