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CVE-2008-4575

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4575 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the DoCommand function of jhead versions prior to 2.84, potentially allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) through a long -cmd argument or other string overflows. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), it is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication required, but only leads to a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.82CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sentex:jhead:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sentex:jhead:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sentex:jhead:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sentex:jhead:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sentex:jhead:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0173 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4575Moderate

jhead buffer overflow

Oct 15, 2008

References

bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/32363
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00511.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00531.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6
securityfocus.com / bid/31770
Patch
sentex.net / ~mwandel/jhead/changes.txt