CVE-2020-26208

Heap-buffer-overflow in jhead

CVSS 5.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.9%CWE-787

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.3EPSS 0.9%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

02 Feb 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

JHEAD is a simple command line tool for displaying and some manipulation of EXIF header data embedded in Jpeg images from digital cameras. In affected versions there is a heap-buffer-overflow on jhead-3.04/jpgfile.c:285 ReadJpegSections. Crafted jpeg images can be provided to the user resulting in a program crash or potentially incorrect exif information retrieval. Users are advised to upgrade. There is no known workaround for this issue.

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

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/1900821 https://github.com/F-ZhaoYang/jhead/commit/5186ddcf9e35a7aa0ff0539489a930434a1325f4 https://github.com/F-ZhaoYang/jhead/security/advisories/GHSA-7pr6-xq4f-qhgc https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/7