Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-4640 First vendor Publication 2008-10-21
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The DoCommand function in jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and earlier allows local users to delete arbitrary files via vectors involving a modified input filename in which (1) a final "z" character is replaced by a "t" character or (2) a final "t" character is replaced by a "z" character.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4640

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 20

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-07 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-1776 (jhead)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_1776.nasl
2009-03-07 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-1824 (jhead)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_1824.nasl
2009-02-18 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:041 (jhead)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_041.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:001 (OpenSuSE 11.1)
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_001.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:001 (OpenSuSE 11.0)
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_001a.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:001 (OpenSuSE 10.3)
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_001b.nasl
2009-01-13 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200901-02 (jhead)
File : nvt/glsa_200901_02.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
49475 jhead jhead.c DoCommand Function Arbitrary Local File Deletion

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_jhead-090108.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_jhead-090108.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-1824.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2009-041.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-03-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-1776.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-12 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200901-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-11 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_jhead-5899.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/26/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32506
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020
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