CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000249
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 (Oct 2016) lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buffer with a specially crafted .notes section in an ELF binary. This was fixed in commit 35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 (Aug 2017).
Affected configurations
• file project file 5.29
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3965 www.debian.org
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-02 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3965 www.debian.org
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-02 security.gentoo.org