CVE-2021-28275

MEDIUM

jhead 3.04-3.05 - Denial of Service via Wild Address Read in Get16u Function

Title source: llm

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in jhead 3.04 and 3.05 due to a wild address read in the Get16u function in exif.c in will cause segmentation fault via a crafted_file.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0065

EPSS Percentile 46.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-704

Status published

Products (2)

jhead_project/jhead 3.04

jhead_project/jhead 3.05

Published Mar 23, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026