CVE-2008-4575: Sentex Jhead

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Sentex Jhead: up to and including 2.82; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.6 only; …

Published 2008-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.