Bug 2271380 (CVE-2024-2824)

Summary:	CVE-2024-2824 jhead: heap buffer overflow in PrintFormatNumber() can lead to segmentation fault
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mauro Matteo Cascella <mcascell>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-03-25 11:18:39 UTC

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Matthias-Wandel jhead 3.08. This issue affects the PrintFormatNumber() function and can lead to a segmentation fault.

Upstream issue:
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/84

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-03-25 11:19:29 UTC

Created jhead tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2271381]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2271382]