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).

Notes

Author	Note
sbeattie	introduced in 5.28

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
file Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Released (1:5.32-1)
	xenial	Not vulnerable
	zesty	Released (1:5.29-3ubuntu0.1)
	Patches: Introduced by 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 Fixed by 35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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