🛡️ CVE-2022-35166 — libjpeg

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-835 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

libjpeg commit 842c7ba was discovered to contain an infinite loop via the component JPEG::ReadInternal.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-35166 is classified as CWE-835: Infinite Loop. A loop condition can never become false for some inputs, hanging the process.

Affected software

CVE-2022-35166 is recorded against 1 package.

  • libjpeg

Timeline and source

Published on 18 August 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com

CVE-2022-35166 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-835
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-18
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libjpeg — —

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/thorfdbg/libjpeg/issues/76
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/thorfdbg/libjpeg/issues/76

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