9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
68.2%
Multiple Vulnerabilities in jpeg-xl
===================================
CVE: CVE-2021-27804
Highest Severity Rating: High
Confirmed Affected Versions: jpeg-xl v0.3.1 and earlier
Vendor: Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
Vendor URL: https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl
Summary and Impact
------------------
jpeg-xl is the reference implementation by the Joint Photographic
Experts Group (JPEG) of the new JPEG XL standard.
Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities were found and reported in
the last 3 months. The security issues were responsively reported to
the vendor and were fixed in subsequent version, however silently.
The changelog does not reflect security issues being fixed:
jpeg-xl (0.3.2) urgency=medium
* Bump JPEG XL version to 0.3.2.
* Fix embedded ICC encoding regression #149.
-- Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:00:12 +0100
jpeg-xl (0.3.1) urgency=medium
* Bump JPEG XL version to 0.3.1.
-- Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:48:43 +0100
jpeg-xl (0.3) urgency=medium
* Bump JPEG XL version to 0.3.
-- Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:36:32 +0100
All the while it is already being available e.g. in Arch Linux
(https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libjpeg-xl-git/) and FreeBSD
(https://pkgs.org/download/jpeg-xl) and is currently in the process of
being added to Debian and therefore to Ubuntu and Kali Linux.
Hence the need to sit down and write a boring advisory to publish on a
mailing list instead of doing something more interesting :(
For anyone interested, the memory corruptions were discovered by using
the AFL++ fuzzer (https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus) for just a
few hours for testing purposes. The current v0.3.2 release of jpeg-xl
also produces writeable memory corruptions when fuzzing for a very short
time (with a good starting corpus that is).
Recommendation
--------------
The vendor should establish a proper notification on fixed security
issues in the changelog and not put the Internet at risk.
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
68.2%