CVE-2021-28276

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6098-1

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in jhead 3.04 and 3.05 via a wild address read in the ProcessCanonMakerNoteDir function in makernote.c.

Se presenta una vulnerabilidad de denegación de servicio en jhead versiones 3.04 y 3.05, por medio de una lectura de una dirección salvaje en la función ProcessCanonMakerNoteDir en el archivo makernote.c

It was discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images while processing the JFIF markers. An attacker could cause Jhead to crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images while processing longitude tags. An attacker could cause Jhead to crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-03-12 CVE Reserved
2022-03-23 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2025-04-10 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/1	2022-11-16

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17	2022-11-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Jhead Project Search vendor "Jhead Project"		Jhead Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead"				3.04 Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead" and version "3.04"		-		Affected
Jhead Project Search vendor "Jhead Project"		Jhead Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead"				3.05 Search vendor "Jhead Project" for product "Jhead" and version "3.05"		-		Affected