CVE-2019-8905

MEDIUM4.4EPSS 0.11%

file - security update

Published: 2/18/2019Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10360.

Affected packages (3)

Alpine/filefrom 0, < 5.36-r0
Debian/filefrom 0, < 1:5.35-3
Debian/filefrom 0, < 1:5.22+15-2+deb8u5

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM4.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-8905
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-8905