Out-of-bounds Write Affecting file-libs package, versions <0:5.37-8.48.amzn1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.12% (46th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN201803-FILELIBS-1720814
- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 21 Oct 2019
Introduced: 21 Oct 2019
CVE-2019-18218 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03
file-libs
to version 0:5.37-8.48.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2019-1326
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream file-libs
package and not the file-libs
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2018.03
relevant fixed versions and status.
cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDF_VECTOR elements, which allows a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write).
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200115-0001/
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18218
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4550
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV6PFCEYHYALMTT45QE2U5C5TEJZQPXJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6BJVGXSCC6NMIAWX36FPWHEIFON3OSE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VBK6XOJR6OVWT2FUEBO7V7KCOSSLAP52/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-24
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16780
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00032.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00044.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV6PFCEYHYALMTT45QE2U5C5TEJZQPXJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6BJVGXSCC6NMIAWX36FPWHEIFON3OSE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VBK6XOJR6OVWT2FUEBO7V7KCOSSLAP52/