CVE-2017-1000249

Publication date 5 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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).

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
file 17.04 zesty
Fixed 1:5.29-3ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

introduced in 5.28

Patch details

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Package Patch details
file

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

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

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