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openSUSE: 2021:0620-1 Moderate: jhead Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for jhead on openSUSE has been issued to resolve a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability classified as having moderate severity.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for jhead fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-3496: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in Get16u() in exif.c

(bsc#1184756)

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update update project.

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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 Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-620=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

jhead-3.00-bp152.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3496.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184756

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0620-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 .

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