CVE-2017-1000249Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Project File

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 66.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 11
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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).

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

Debianfile_project/file< 1:5.32-1+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-7wwh-xwjg-8qfp: An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 (Oct 2016) lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buff2022-05-17
OSV
CVE-2017-1000249: An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 (Oct 2016) lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buff2017-09-11
CVEList
CVE-2017-1000249: An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 (Oct 2016) lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buff2017-09-11

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
file vulnerability2017-09-07
Red Hat
file: Stack-based buffer overflow in do_bid_note()2017-09-05
Debian
CVE-2017-1000249: file - An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510...2017

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000249 file: Stack-based buffer overflow in do_bid_note() [fedora-all]2017-09-05
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000249 file: Stack-based buffer overflow in do_bid_note()2017-09-04
CVE-2017-1000249 — File Project File vulnerability | cvebase