CVE-2018-16554

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    CVE-2018-16554

    Published: 16 Sept 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The ProcessGpsInfo function of the gpsinfo.c file of jhead 3.00 may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a malicious JPEG file, because of inconsistency between float and double in a sprintf format string during TAG_GPS_ALT handling.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00037.html, https://nimo-zhang.github.io/2018/09/07/bug-analysis-1/#more, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908176

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    Introduced- None
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