Stack out-of-bounds read in file - CVE-2019-8905

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Stack out-of-bounds read in file - CVE-2019-8905

Published: February 21, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17821
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-8905
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to stack-based buffer over-read in the do_core_note function, related to file_printable. A remote attacker can trick the victim into executing a file that submits malicious input to the targeted system with the file command, trigger memory corruption and gain access to arbitrary data or perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

file
Arch Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Opensuse
Fedora
file (Ubuntu package)
file (Alpine package)
file
Dell EMC Container Storage Modules

How to mitigate CVE-2019-8905

Update to version 5.36.

file - update to 5.36
file (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:5.25-2ubuntu1.2, 1:5.32-2ubuntu0.2, 1:5.34-2ubuntu0.1
file (Alpine package) - update to 5.32-r1
Dell EMC Container Storage Modules - update to 1.7.0
file - addressed in versions 5.33-10.fc28, 5.34-12.fc29

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