CVE-2021-28275

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.

CVSS v3.1 NVD

5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 51st percentile

Published

2022-03-23

Updated

2024-08-03

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17263★ · 2026-06-06

Security advisories

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2021-28277
• CVE-2021-28278
• CVE-2021-34055
• CVE-2021-3496
• CVE-2024-2824