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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4575

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4575

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/15/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

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."

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-jhead

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