openSUSE 16 Security Update : jhead (openSUSE-SU-2026:22282-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 381195

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:22282-1 advisory.

Changes in jhead:

- CVE-2024-2824: heap-based buffer overflow in function PrintFormatNumber (bsc#1221918)
- CVE-2025-44906: v3.08 was discovered to contain a heap-use-after-free via the ProcessFile function at jhead.c. (bsc#1243819)
- CVE-2026-90681: Denial of service via out-of-bounds read in EXIF parsing (bsc#1280205)
- CVE-2026-90682: heap buffer overflow in in `Get32s` when processing GPS rational values from malformed WebP EXIF chunks (bsc#1280482)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected jhead package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 381195

File Name: openSUSE-2026-22282-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/14/2026

Updated: 11/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.19

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-44906

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Threat Score: 1.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-90682

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:jhead

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2824, CVE-2025-44906, CVE-2026-90681, CVE-2026-90682

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