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CVE-2019-8905

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• File Project File: 5.35
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 42.3

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00053.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107137
• https://bugs.astron.com/view.php?id=63
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00044.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3911-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00053.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107137
• https://bugs.astron.com/view.php?id=63
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00044.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3911-1/

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