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openSUSE 42.3/15.0 Moderate: Jhead Denial Of Service Advisory

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has released a security update for jhead to mitigate several vulnerabilities, including potential denial of service and code execution threats.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for jhead fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2016-3822: jhead remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause

a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) via crafted EXIF data

(bsc#1108480).

- 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 of inconsistency between float and

double in a sprintf format string during TAG_GPS_ALT handling

(bsc#1108480).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1044=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1044=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1044=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

jhead-3.00-11.1

jhead-debuginfo-3.00-11.1

jhead-debugsource-3.00-11.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

jhead-3.00-lp150.3.3.1

jhead-debuginfo-3.00-lp150.3.3.1

jhead-debugsource-3.00-lp150.3.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

jhead-3.00-bp150.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3822.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16554.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108480

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2827-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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