CVE-2008-4575

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Sentex Jhead: through 2.82; 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 (+13)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32363
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31770
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00511.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00531.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32363
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31770
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020

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