CVE-2019-13960 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published 18 Jul 2019 Updated 5 Aug 2024

An attacker can cause denial of service by providing a malformed progressive JPEG image that triggers excessive memory consumption in libjpeg-turbo.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2019-13960?

CVE-2019-13960 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Jul 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In libjpeg-turbo 2.0.2, a large amount of memory can be used during processing of an invalid progressive JPEG image containing incorrect width and height values in the image header. NOTE: the vendor's expectation, for use cases in which this memory usage would be a denial of service, is that the application should interpret libjpeg warnings as fatal errors (aborting decompression) and/or set limits on resource consumption or image sizes

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-13960?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Libjpeg-Turbo Libjpeg-Turbo.

How do I fix CVE-2019-13960?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-13960 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-13960 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-13960 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-mq63-35pw-h66r.