CVE-2021-28275

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.7%

Medium (5.5) in jhead project jhead. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-704
Published: 2022-03-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

jhead_project:jhead

References

https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/17
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17

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