CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-6612

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-02-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-191

Description

An integer underflow bug in the process_EXIF function of the exif.c file of jhead 3.00 raises a heap-based buffer over-read when processing a malicious JPEG file, which may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact.

Affected configurations

• jhead project jhead 3.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness

References