PT-2022-9883 · Jhead+4 · Jhead+4

Giantbranch · Published 2021-04-26 · Updated 2023-05-29 · CVE-2021-28275

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions jhead versions 3.04 through 3.05

Description A Denial of Service issue exists due to a wild address read in the Get16u function in exif.c, which can cause a segmentation fault via a crafted file.

Recommendations For jhead version 3.04, update to a version that fixes the issue in the Get16u function. For jhead version 3.05, update to a version that fixes the issue in the Get16u function. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the exif.c file or the Get16u function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-704

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-1715

CVE-2021-28275

USN-6110-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

Jhead

References · 15

• 🔥 https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-28275 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28275 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28275 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28275 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3496 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28275 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28275 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-28275 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/commit/a50953a266583981b51a181c2fce73dad2ac5d7d · Note
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/2020068 · Note