CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4575
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the DoCommand function in jhead before 2.84 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) a long -cmd argument and (2) unspecified vectors related to "a bunch of potential string overflows."
Affected configurations
• sentex jhead (<= 2.82)
• sentex jhead 1.2
• sentex jhead 1.3
• sentex jhead 1.4
• sentex jhead 1.5
• sentex jhead 1.6
• sentex jhead 1.7
• sentex jhead 1.8
• sentex jhead 1.9
• sentex jhead 2.0
• sentex jhead 2.1
• sentex jhead 2.2
• sentex jhead 2.3
• sentex jhead 2.4
• sentex jhead 2.4-1
• sentex jhead 2.4-2
• sentex jhead 2.5
• sentex jhead 2.6
• sentex jhead 2.7
• sentex jhead 2.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32363 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31770 Patch
- http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt www.sentex.net
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020 Exploit
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00511.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00531.html www.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32363 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31770 Patch
- http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt www.sentex.net
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020 Exploit
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00511.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00531.html www.redhat.com