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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-8904: Security patch for file (ALAS-2019-1186)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-8904: Security patch for file (ALAS-2019-1186)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/18/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/01/2019
Modified
07/17/2021

Description

do_bid_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printf and file_vprintf.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-file

References

  • ALAS-2019-1186
  • USN-3911-1
  • CVE-2019-8904

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