PT-2008-5852 · Murray Brown · Jhead

John Dong · Published 2008-10-21 · Updated 2010-12-28 · CVE-2008-4639

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions jhead versions 2.84 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file in jhead.c.

Recommendations For versions 2.84 and earlier, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, or as a temporary workaround, restrict access to temporary files created by jhead to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4639

Affected Products

Jhead

References · 9

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4639 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4639 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4639 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4639 · Security Note
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/06/5 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/5 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/3 · Note