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CVE-2019-18218

high

Description

cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDF_VECTOR elements, which allows a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write).

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4550

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200115-0001/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-24

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VBK6XOJR6OVWT2FUEBO7V7KCOSSLAP52/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6BJVGXSCC6NMIAWX36FPWHEIFON3OSE/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV6PFCEYHYALMTT45QE2U5C5TEJZQPXJ/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00008.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00032.html

https://github.com/file/file/commit/46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00044.html

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16780

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-21

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00216