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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-17088): jhead vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-17088): jhead vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/16/2018
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

Description

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 there is an integer overflow during a check for whether a location exceeds the EXIF data length. This is analogous to the CVE-2016-3822 integer overflow in exif.c. This gpsinfo.c vulnerability is unrelated to the CVE-2018-16554 gpsinfo.c vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-jhead

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