openSUSE Security Update : jhead (openSUSE-2021-743)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149639

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

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

Solution

Update the affected jhead packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149639

File Name: openSUSE-2021-743.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/18/2021

Updated: 1/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3496

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:jhead-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:jhead, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:jhead-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3822, CVE-2018-16554, CVE-2018-17088, CVE-2018-6612, CVE-2019-1010301, CVE-2019-1010302, CVE-2020-6624, CVE-2020-6625, CVE-2021-3496

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