CVE-2008-4639: Sentex Jhead

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Affected products

• Sentex Jhead: up to and including 2.84; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.6 only; …

Published 2008-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.