Bug 467262 (CVE-2008-4575)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4575 jhead buffer overflow
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adrian
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4575
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Bug Depends On:	467263, 467264
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-10-16 15:49:16 UTC

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) possibly other unspecified
vectors.

Reference: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6
Reference: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt
Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-10-20 20:28:47 UTC

jhead-2.84-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-10-20 22:05:56 UTC

jhead-2.84-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-22 15:46:17 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-8941
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8928