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CVE-2017-1000249

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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).

Affected products

• File Project File: 5.29

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3965
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-02
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3965
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-02

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