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file -- Heap buffer overflow possible

Affected packages
file < 5.37

Details

VuXML ID 381deebb-f5c9-11e9-9c4f-74d435e60b7c
Discovery 2019-08-26
Entry 2019-11-02

mitre reports

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

URL https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16780
URL https://github.com/file/file/commit/46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84