CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0102

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-03-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-03-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in tryelf() in readelf.c of the file command allows attackers to execute arbitrary code as the user running file, possibly via a large entity size value in an ELF header (elfhdr.e_shentsize).

Affected configurations

• file file 3.28 • file file 3.30 • file file 3.32 • file file 3.33 • file file 3.34 • file file 3.35 • file file 3.36 • file file 3.37 • file file 3.39 • file file 3.40 • netbsd netbsd 1.5 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.6

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