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CVE-2022-28550

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Matthias-Wandel/jhead jhead 3.06 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via shellescape(), jhead.c, jhead. jhead copies strings to a stack buffer when it detects a &i or &o. However, jhead does not check the boundary of the stack buffer. As a result, there will be a stack buffer overflow problem when multiple `&i` or `&o` are given.

Affected products

• jhead: 3.06

References

• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/commit/64894dbc7d8e1e232e85f1cab25c64290b2fc167
• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/51
• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/commit/64894dbc7d8e1e232e85f1cab25c64290b2fc167
• https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/51

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