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CVE-2024-2824VulnerabilityPublished Updated

SUSE · Security update for jhead

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Mentioned vulnerabilities

Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 22:16 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 11 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 13 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Apply the security update provided by the vendor to remediate these vulnerabilities. Since this is a product security update from SUSE, users should follow the official SUSE advisory and update jhead to the fixed version as soon as possible. No additional mitigation steps are indicated.

Description

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed in the jhead utility, including heap-based buffer overflows, a heap-use-after-free, and an out-of-bounds read during EXIF parsing. These issues affect functions such as PrintFormatNumber, ProcessFile, and Get32s when handling malformed EXIF data, including GPS rational values from WebP EXIF chunks.

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