CVE-2020-26208

Name	CVE-2020-26208
Description	JHEAD is a simple command line tool for displaying and some manipulation of EXIF header data embedded in Jpeg images from digital cameras. In affected versions there is a heap-buffer-overflow on jhead-3.04/jpgfile.c:285 ReadJpegSections. Crafted jpeg images can be provided to the user resulting in a program crash or potentially incorrect exif information retrieval. Users are advised to upgrade. There is no known workaround for this issue.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium
Debian Bugs	972617

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
jhead (PTS)	stretch	1:3.00-4+deb9u1	vulnerable
	buster	1:3.00-8	vulnerable
	bullseye	1:3.04-6	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1:3.06.0.1-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
jhead	source	(unstable)	1:3.04-6	unimportant		972617

Notes

https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/commit/5186ddcf9e35a7aa0ff0539489a930434a1325f4
https://github.com/Matthias-Wandel/jhead/issues/7
https://sources.debian.org/src/jhead/1%3A3.04-6/debian/patches/allocate-extra.patch/
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact