UBUNTU-CVE-2021-28275

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-28275

    Published: 23 Mar 2022Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-28275
    Aliases:
    USN-6110-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28275, https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/commit/a50953a266583981b51a181c2fce73dad2ac5d7d, https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6110-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28275

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jhead

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/jhead@1:3.04-1ubuntu0.2+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:3.04-1ubuntu0.2+esm1

    Affected versions

    1:3.03-3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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