CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-39516

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-09-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in libjpeg through 2020021. A NULL pointer dereference exists in the function HuffmanDecoder::Get() located in huffmandecoder.hpp. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Affected configurations

• jpeg libjpeg (<= 2020021)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References