CVE-2021-28277

7.8 highEPSS 0.9%

High (7.8) in jhead project jhead. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerabilty exists in jhead 3.04 and 3.05 is affected by: Buffer Overflow via the RemoveUnknownSections function in jpgfile.c.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
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/16
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/16
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-17

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