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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-18218: Moderate: file security update (ALSA-2021-4374)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-18218: Moderate: file security update (ALSA-2021-4374)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/21/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
04/24/2023

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).

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-file
  • alma-upgrade-file-devel
  • alma-upgrade-file-libs
  • alma-upgrade-python3-magic

References

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