Gentoo: 200901-02 Moderate: JHead Various Security Vulnerabilities
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January 11, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities in JHead might lead to the execution of arbitrary code or data loss.
Summary
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
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Multiple vulnerabilities in JHead might lead to the execution of
arbitrary code or data loss.
Background
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JHead is an exif jpeg header manipulation tool.
Affected packages
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1 media-gfx/jhead < 2.84-r1 >= 2.84-r1
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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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