Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting Matthias-Wandel/jhead package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MATTHIASWANDELJHEAD-3051182
  • published18 Oct 2022
  • disclosed18 Oct 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-41751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution in the RegenerateThumbnail function in jhead.c when processing a malicious JPEG file that has an EXIF thumbnail, using the regeneration option -rgt50.

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