CVE-2008-4575
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.72% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-10-15 19:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:24Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-10-15
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5909762fa93d83ce61dbb3eae87c8d280309cc994da40114835a2b60e3d4f086
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-8928https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00511.html
- www.securityfocus.com31770http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31770
- www.sentex.nethttp://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt
- secunia.com32363http://secunia.com/advisories/32363
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-8941https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00531.html
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20081015 Re: CVE request: jheadhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- jhead Fixed in 2.84-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- jhead Fixed in 2.84-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- jhead Fixed in 2.84-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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