MGASA-2018-0457 - Updated jhead package fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 17 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0457.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-16554,
     CVE-2018-17088

The ProcessGpsInfo function may have allowed 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 (CVE-2018-16554).

The ProcessGpsInfo function may have allowed a remote attacker to cause
a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a malicious
JPEG file, because there is an integer overflow during a check for
whether a location exceeds the EXIF data length (CVE-2018-17088).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23676
- - - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16554
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17088

SRPMS:
- 6/core/jhead-3.00-3.3.mga6

Mageia 2018-0457: jhead security update

The ProcessGpsInfo function may have allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a malicious JPEG file, because of inconsistency b...

Summary

The ProcessGpsInfo function may have allowed 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 (CVE-2018-16554).
The ProcessGpsInfo function may have allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a malicious JPEG file, because there is an integer overflow during a check for whether a location exceeds the EXIF data length (CVE-2018-17088).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23676

- - - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16554

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17088

Resolution

MGASA-2018-0457 - Updated jhead package fixes security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 6/core/jhead-3.00-3.3.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 17 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0457.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-16554, CVE-2018-17088

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