jhead 3.03 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: gpsinfo.c Line 151 ProcessGpsInfo(). The attack vector is: Open a specially crafted JPEG file.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6098-1 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2019-19035)

    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. (CVE-2019-1010301)

    It was discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images while processing IPTC data. An     attacker could cause Jhead to crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2019-1010302)

    Binbin Li discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images while processing the DQT     data. An attacker could cause Jhead to crash. (CVE-2020-6624)

    Binbin Li discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images while processing longitude     data. An attacker could cause Jhead to crash. (CVE-2020-6625)

    Feng Zhao Yang discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images while reading JPEG     sections. An attacker could cause Jhead to crash. (CVE-2020-26208)

    It was discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images while processing Canon images.
    An attacker could cause Jhead to crash. (CVE-2021-28276)

    It was discovered that Jhead did not properly handle certain crafted images when removing a certain type     of sections. An attacker could cause Jhead to crash. (CVE-2021-28278)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for jhead fixes the following issues :

jhead was updated to 3.06.0.1

  - lot of fuzztest fixes

  - Apply a whole bunch of patches from Debian.

  - Spell check and fuzz test stuff from Debian, nothing     useful to human users.

  - Add option to set exif date from date from another file.

  - Bug fixes relating to fuzz testing.

  - Fix bug where thumbnail replacement DID NOT WORK.

  - Fix bug when no orientation tag is present

  - Fix bug of not clearing exif information when processing     images with an without exif data in one invocation.

  - Remove some unnecessary warnings with some types of GPS     data

  - Remove multiple copies of the same type of section when     deleting section types

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202007-17 (JHead: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in JHead. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Multiple buffer overflows have been fixed in jhead, a program to manipulate the non-image part of Exif compliant JPEG files.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.97-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your jhead packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

added patches to fix CVE-2019-1010301 and CVE-2019-1010302 from Debian

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
176239	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Jhead vulnerabilities (USN-6098-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
149639	openSUSE Security Update : jhead (openSUSE-2021-743)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
138940	GLSA-202007-17 : JHead: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
132591	Debian DLA-2054-1 : jhead security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
127871	Fedora 29 : jhead (2019-441c2fb0d1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
127870	Fedora 30 : jhead (2019-17b95fecd3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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