Bug 468057 (CVE-2008-4641)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4641 jhead: command exection caused by incorrect handling of the shell escapes
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adrian
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4641
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-10-22 15:42:08 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-4641 to the following vulnerability:

The DoCommand function in jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and
earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell
metacharacters in unspecified input.

References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/3

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-11-03 16:24:19 UTC

Debian bug report contains a proposed patch that implements simple shellescape function that does escaping of the filenames passed to the external programs:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504194#61

(Patch is not (yet?) upstream, bug also contains further feedback from the upstream author.)

Comment 2 Adrian Reber 2009-02-16 14:16:48 UTC

debian has released jhead 2.86 which seems to fix this error.

Comment 3 Adrian Reber 2009-02-16 14:22:28 UTC

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/j/jhead/jhead_2.86-1/changelog.html

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-03-05 16:31:43 UTC

jhead-2.86-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-03-05 16:32:38 UTC

jhead-2.86-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Red Hat Product Security 2009-03-06 13:11:40 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-1824
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-1776