ubuntu · CVE-2018-16554

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Priority: low Published: 2018-09-16 02:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:49:06 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-16554 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (jhead), 6 status rows across 6 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, trusty, upstream, xenial): released 5, not-affected 1.

Description:

The ProcessGpsInfo function of the gpsinfo.c file of jhead 3.00 may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a malicious JPEG file, because of inconsistency between float and double in a sprintf format string during TAG_GPS_ALT handling.

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