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CVE-2020-36332

Published: 31 December 2020

A flaw was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1. When reading a file libwebp allocates an excessive amount of memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to the service availability.

Notes

AuthorNote
leosilva
backporting this to xenial is too intrusive, hence we will not be fixing
this in xenial/esm neither in trusty/esm.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
libwebp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.1)
focal
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu0.20.04.1)
groovy
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu0.20.10.1)
hirsute
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu0.21.04.1)
impish
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu1)
jammy
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu1)
kinetic
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu1)
lunar
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu1)
mantic
Released (0.6.1-2ubuntu1)
trusty Not vulnerable

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needed

Patches:
upstream: https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+/dce5d7643177633ebe3513af492ea8c08c299cf3
upstream: https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+/39cb9aad85ca7bb1d193013460db1f8cc6bff109

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H