ubuntu · CVE-2018-6612

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-02-04 15:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:58:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-6612 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (jhead), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 11, released 3, ignored 1.

Description:

An integer underflow bug in the process_EXIF function of the exif.c file of jhead 3.00 raises a heap-based buffer over-read when processing a malicious JPEG file, which may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact.

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