Bug 1949245 (CVE-2021-3496) - CVE-2021-3496 jhead: heap-based buffer overflow in Get16u() in exif.c
Summary: CVE-2021-3496 jhead: heap-based buffer overflow in Get16u() in exif.c
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2021-3496
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1949247 1949246
Blocks: 1949248
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-13 19:13 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-04-19 14:13 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: jhead 3.06.0.1
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A heap-based buffer overflow was found in jhead in version 3.06 in Get16u() in exif.c when processing a crafted file.
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Last Closed: 2021-04-13 22:46:45 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-13 19:13:03 UTC 
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in jhead in version 3.06 in Get16u() in exif.c when processing a crafted file.

Reference:
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/33
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-13 19:13:40 UTC 
Created jhead tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1949247]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1949246]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-04-13 22:46:45 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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