CVE-2017-1000249

Published: 5 September 2017

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).

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
file Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Not vulnerable
	trusty	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Released (1:5.32-1)
	xenial	Not vulnerable
	zesty	Released (1:5.29-3ubuntu0.1)

Notes

Author	Note
sbeattie	introduced in 5.28

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000249
https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3412-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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