PT-2022-9885 · Jhead+4 · Jhead+4

Giantbranch · Published 2021-04-26 · Updated 2023-05-29 · CVE-2021-28277

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

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

Description A Heap-based Buffer Overflow issue exists, allowing for a Buffer Overflow via the RemoveUnknownSections function in jpgfile.c.

Recommendations For jhead versions 3.04 and 3.05, consider disabling the RemoveUnknownSections function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-1715

CVE-2021-28277

USN-6110-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

Jhead

References · 15

• 🔥 https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/16 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28277 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3496 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-28277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28275 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6110-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28277 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-28277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-28277 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/commit/b8d78e5ec982e86cdd70ebfc1ebbb2273c982eea · Note
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/2020068 · Note