jhead through 3.04 has a heap-based buffer over-read in process_DQT in jpgqguess.c.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202406-05 (JHead: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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 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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
200860	GLSA-202406-05 : JHead: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
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

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2020-6624

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

high

high