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jhead: buffer overflow

Package(s):jhead CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4575
Created:October 21, 2008 Updated:March 5, 2009
Description: From the CVE entry: 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.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-1776 2009-02-17
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:041 2009-02-17
Gentoo 200901-02 2009-01-11
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:001 2009-01-12
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8941 2008-10-20
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8928 2008-10-20
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