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Gentoo: 200901-02 Moderate: JHead Various Security Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2009
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Several security flaws in JHead may result in unauthorized code execution or loss of data; updating is essential to avert potential threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities in JHead might lead to the execution of arbitrary code or data loss.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: JHead: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: January 11, 2009 Bugs: #242702, #243238 ID: 200901-02

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in JHead might lead to the execution of arbitrary code or data loss.
Background ========= JHead is an exif jpeg header manipulation tool.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/jhead < 2.84-r1 >= 2.84-r1
========== Marc Merlin and John Dong reported multiple vulnerabilities in JHead:
* A buffer overflow in the DoCommand() function when processing the cmd argument and related to potential string overflows ...

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