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CVE-2020-14152 related to libjpeg may affect Fiona PyPI wheels before 1.10b1

Moderate
sgillies published GHSA-g4m4-9q4c-mfw6 Jul 15, 2024

Package

pip fiona (pip)

Affected versions

1.9.6

Patched versions

1.10b2

Description

Summary

Vulnerability scan of fiona shows CVE-2020-14152. The vulnerability is in libjpeg, a transitive dependency of fiona (via GDAL and PROJ).

Details

In IJG JPEG (aka libjpeg) before 9d, jpeg_mem_available() in jmemnobs.c in djpeg does not honor the max_memory_to_use setting, possibly causing excessive memory consumption.

Impact

fiona will not open JPEG files and is not vulnerable to attack in that way. fiona might be vulnerable to malformed PROJ grid files using JPEG compression. No such vulnerability or compromise has been demonstrated.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits