CVE-2020-26208

Heap-buffer-overflow in jhead

Medium · published February 2, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
59.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00890 · 59.0th percentile
Published
2022-02-02T11:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 FEB 11:51Z
    Heap-buffer-overflow in jhead
    cvelistv5