CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16554
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Description
The ProcessGpsInfo function of the gpsinfo.c file of jhead 3.00 may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a malicious JPEG file, because of inconsistency between float and double in a sprintf format string during TAG_GPS_ALT handling.
Affected configurations
• jhead project jhead 3.00
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908176 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00037.html lists.debian.org
- https://nimo-zhang.github.io/2018/09/07/bug-analysis-1/#more Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908176 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00037.html lists.debian.org
- https://nimo-zhang.github.io/2018/09/07/bug-analysis-1/#more Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory