CVE-2019-18218

moderate-risk

Published 2019-10-21

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).

Do I need to act?

0.17% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (15)

File

Debian Linux

Leap

Active Iq Unified Manager

Fedora

Ubuntu Linux

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Fedoraproject Netapp Opensuse File Project

References (26)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00044.html

Exploit https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16780

Patch https://github.com/file/file/commit/46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84

Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00032.html

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00008.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-24

Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200115-0001/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-1/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-2/

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4550

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00044.html

Exploit https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16780

Patch https://github.com/file/file/commit/46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84

Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00032.html

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00008.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

and 6 more references

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal

Exposure 18/34 · Moderate