Out-of-Bounds Affecting file package, versions <1:5.32-1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-FILE-524877
- published11 Sept 2017
- disclosed11 Sept 2017
Introduced: 11 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-1000249 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 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:11 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