CVE-2018-14498: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

get_8bit_row in rdbmp.c in libjpeg-turbo through 1.5.90 and MozJPEG through 3.3.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted 8-bit BMP in which one or more of the color indices is out of range for the number of palette entries.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 28 only
• Libjpeg-Turbo Libjpeg-Turbo: up to and including 1.5.90
• Mozilla Mozjpeg: up to and including 3.3.1
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only

Published 2019-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.