National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4575

Overview

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."

Impact

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External Source: BID

Name: 31770

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31770

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-8941

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00531.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-8928

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00511.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020

Hyperlink:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081015 Re: CVE request: jhead

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32363

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32363