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SUSE: CVE-2017-1000249: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-1000249: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/11/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/20/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

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).

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-file
  • suse-upgrade-file-devel
  • suse-upgrade-file-magic
  • suse-upgrade-libmagic1
  • suse-upgrade-libmagic1-32bit

References

  • DSA-3965
  • GLSA-201710-02
  • CVE-2017-1000249
  • USN-3412-1

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