jhead 3.03 is affected by: heap-based buffer over-read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: ReadJpegSections and process_SOFn in jpgfile.c. 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.

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.

updated to 3.04 (CVE-2019-19035)

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
138940	GLSA-202007-17 : JHead: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
131456	Fedora 31 : jhead (2019-948e6ebaeb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
131451	Fedora 30 : jhead (2019-7efb86afdc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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