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CVE-2008-4641 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (jhead), 11 status rows across 11 suites (dapper, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, upstream): not-affected 6, ignored 4, released 1.
The DoCommand function in jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified input.