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CVE-2021-28275

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-704

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in jhead 3.04 and 3.05 due to a wild address read in the Get16u function in exif.c in will cause segmentation fault via a crafted_file.

Affected products

• jhead: 3.04, 3.05

References

• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17
• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17

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