CVE-2008-4575 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-4575 at MITRE

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."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 435979 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:001, published Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`jhead >= 3.00-1.8`	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA jhead-3.00-1.8

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:32:31 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:28:27 2023