PT-2008-5794 · Matthew Petroff · Jhead

John Dong · Published 2008-10-15 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-4575

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions jhead versions prior to 2.84

Description A buffer overflow issue exists in the DoCommand function, potentially allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long -cmd argument and other unspecified vectors related to string overflows.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.84, update to version 2.84 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4575

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10096-1

Affected Products

Jhead

References · 14

• 🔥 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4575 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00531.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10096-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31770 · Patch
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00511.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4575 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4575 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4575 · Security Note
• http://sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4641 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32363 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4575 · Note