jhead Versions Prior to 2.84 Multiple Vulnerabilities

BID:31770

Info

jhead Versions Prior to 2.84 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 31770
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2008-4575
CVE-2008-4639
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Oct 15 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2015 09:46PM
Credit: Marc Merlin and John Dong
Vulnerable: S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.1
S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.0
S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.3
Matthias Wandel jhead 2.83
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2009.0 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2009.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.1 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.1
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.0 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.0
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable: Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84

Discussion

jhead Versions Prior to 2.84 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The 'jhead' tool is prone to multiple vulnerabilities:

- Multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities
- An insecure-temporary-file-creation vulnerability
- Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities

Attackers can exploit these issues to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application, crash the affected application, perform symbolic-link attacks, and overwrite arbitrary files on the affected computer. Other attacks are also possible.

Versions prior to jhead 2.84 are vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

jhead Versions Prior to 2.84 Multiple Vulnerabilities

An attacker uses readily available commands to exploit the insecure-temporary-file-creation issue.

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits for the buffer-overflow issues. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Solution / Fix

jhead Versions Prior to 2.84 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.


Matthias Wandel jhead 2.83

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2009.0 x86_64

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.1 x86_64

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.0 x86_64

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.1

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2008.0

Mandriva Linux Mandrake 2009.0

References

jhead Versions Prior to 2.84 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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