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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-8905: Security patch for file (ALAS-2019-1186)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 18, 2019
Added
Apr 1, 2019
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10360.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-file
Title
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