USN-8582-1: jbig2dec vulnerabilities

Publication date

21 July 2026

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in jbig2dec.


Packages

Details

Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that jbig2dec had an
out-of-bounds read vulnerability in its command-line tool. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2023-46361)

It was discovered that jbig2dec had an integer overflow in the
jbig2_arith_iaid_ctx_new() function. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-38076)

Zeng Yunxiang and Song Jiaxuan discovered that jbig2dec had an
out-of-bounds read vulnerability in its command-line tool. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2023-46361)

It was discovered that jbig2dec had an integer overflow in the
jbig2_arith_iaid_ctx_new() function. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-38076)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
26.04 LTS resolute jbig2dec –  0.20-1ubuntu0.26.04.1
libjbig2dec0 –  0.20-1ubuntu0.26.04.1
24.04 LTS noble jbig2dec –  0.20-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
libjbig2dec0 –  0.20-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
22.04 LTS jammy jbig2dec –  0.19-3ubuntu0.1
libjbig2dec0 –  0.19-3ubuntu0.1

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