Out-of-bounds read in jhead - CVE-2019-19035

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Out-of-bounds read in jhead - CVE-2019-19035

Published: November 17, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35063
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19035
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
jhead
Software vendor:
www.sentex.net

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

jhead 3.03 is affected by: heap-based buffer over-read. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: ReadJpegSections and process_SOFn in jpgfile.c. The attack vector is: Open a specially crafted JPEG file.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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