CVE-2020-28840

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28840

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28840.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-28840

Aliases

GHSA-xh27-xwgj-gqw2

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28840

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28840

Published

2023-08-11T14:15:11.103Z

Modified

2026-07-09T01:06:20.800414Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in jpgfile.c in Matthias-Wandel jhead version 3.04, allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service (DoS).

Database specific

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    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "vendor_product": "matthiaswandel:jhead",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:matthiaswandel:jhead:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "3.04"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/matthias-wandel/jhead

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/matthias-wandel/jhead

Events

Introduced

Fixed

4827ed31c226dc5ed93603bd649e0e387a1778da

Database specific

Show details

{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-07-09T01:06:20Z"

vanir_signatures

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    {
        "id": "CVE-2020-28840-2886e8f4",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "22708694695867634931681004538540366643",
                "11751138034829950508830305760280444044",
                "165457676957557909118827148440781991284",
                "34090575304609549547297553678404706818"
            ]
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/matthias-wandel/jhead/commit/4827ed31c226dc5ed93603bd649e0e387a1778da",
        "target": {
            "file": "jpgfile.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": "CVE-2020-28840-31077d1a",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
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            "function_hash": "67584776302249895972607559024694253211"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/matthias-wandel/jhead/commit/4827ed31c226dc5ed93603bd649e0e387a1778da",
        "target": {
            "function": "process_COM",
            "file": "jpgfile.c"
        }
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28840.json"