Out-of-Bounds Affecting file package, versions <1:5.32-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (22nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-FILE-301005
- published 11 Sep 2017
- disclosed 11 Sep 2017
Introduced: 11 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-1000249 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
file
to version 1:5.32-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream file
package and not the file
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
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).
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000249
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3965
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-02
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-1000249