CVE-2019-1010302 Denial of service in jhead

What is CVE-2019-1010302?

CVE-2019-1010302 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 15 Jul 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

jhead 3.03 is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: iptc.c Line 122 show_IPTC(). The attack vector is: the victim must open a specially crafted JPEG file.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1010302?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Jhead Project Jhead.

How do I fix CVE-2019-1010302?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-1010302 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1010302 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010302, GHSA-hq47-7f5j-hh4q, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010302.