Out-of-bounds Read Affecting file-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-FILELIBS-1337577
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed3 Jan 2019

Introduced: 3 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-8906  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 file-libs.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has an out-of-bounds read because memcpy is misused.

CVSS Base Scores

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