Vulnerability CVE-2017-1000249
Published: 2017-09-11   Modified: 2017-09-12

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).

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
File project -> FILE 

 References:
https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793
https://github.com/file/file/commit/9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d
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