CVE-2020-14152: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 15, 2020 (updated July 31, 2020)

In IJG JPEG (aka libjpeg) jpeg_mem_available() in jmemnobs.c in djpeg does not honor the max_memory_to_use setting, possibly causing excessive memory consumption.

References

www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9d.tar.gz
bugs.gentoo.org/727908
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14152

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