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RHSA-2020:2971 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: jbig2dec security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 16, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

Topic

An update for jbig2dec is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format.

Security Fix(es):

  • jbig2dec: heap-based buffer overflow in jbig2_image_compose in jbig2_image.c (CVE-2020-12268)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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