jhead 3.03 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: gpsinfo.c Line 151 ProcessGpsInfo(). The attack vector is: Open a specially crafted JPEG file.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2019-1010301 is rated Exploit Available (53.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.24%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-05-27 | 0.34% | 0.24% | -0.11% |
| 2 | 2026-05-25 | 0.13% | 0.34% | +0.21% |
| 3 | 2025-11-21 | — | 0.13% | — |
Full EPSS history (13 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
unimportant | CVE-2019-1010301 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (jhead), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-1010301 |
gentoo
|
normal | CVE-2019-1010301: 1 GLSA(s) (202007-17), 1 atom(s) (media-gfx/jhead); latest impact normal. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2019-1010301 |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2019-1010301 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (jhead), 14 status rows across 14 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 10, ignored 2, released 2. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-1010301 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| jhead_project | jhead | 3.03 | cpe:2.3:a:jhead_project:jhead:3.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 29 | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 30 | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/1838251 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679952 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
| https://launchpadlibrarian.net/435112680/32_crash_in_gpsinfo | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00037.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3WVQTORTGQE56XXC6OVHQCSCUGABRMQZ/ | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YTGUHTJTQ6EKEPDXFSKZKVLUJC4UAPBQ/ | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-17 | Third Party Advisory |