CVE-2019-18218

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-10-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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).

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30, 31
File Project File: through 5.37
Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: from 7.3
openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00044.html
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16780
https://github.com/file/file/commit/46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00032.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00008.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV6PFCEYHYALMTT45QE2U5C5TEJZQPXJ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6BJVGXSCC6NMIAWX36FPWHEIFON3OSE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VBK6XOJR6OVWT2FUEBO7V7KCOSSLAP52/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-24
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200115-0001/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4172-2/

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