CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4641
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The DoCommand function in jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified input.
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-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/26/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31921 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020 bugs.launchpad.net
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/26/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31921 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020 bugs.launchpad.net