Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package file  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-FILE-337538
  • published18 Feb 2019
  • disclosed18 Feb 2019

Introduced: 18 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-8904  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream file package and not the file package as distributed by Debian.

do_bid_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printf and file_vprintf.