CVE-2017-1000249

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000249
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-1000249.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-1000249
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-09-11T19:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-15T08:35:24.743232Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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).

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/file/file

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/file/file
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793
Fixed
9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d

Affected versions

Other

FILE3_27
FILE3_28
FILE3_30
FILE3_31
FILE3_32
FILE3_33
FILE3_34
FILE3_35
FILE3_36
FILE3_37
FILE3_38
FILE3_39
FILE3_40
FILE3_41
FILE4_00
FILE4_01
FILE4_02
FILE4_03
FILE4_04
FILE4_05
FILE4_06
FILE4_07
FILE4_08
FILE4_09
FILE4_10
FILE4_11
FILE4_12
FILE4_13
FILE4_14
FILE4_15
FILE4_16
FILE4_17
FILE4_18
FILE4_19
FILE4_20
FILE4_21
FILE4_22
FILE4_23
FILE4_24
FILE4_25
FILE4_26
FILE5_00
FILE5_01
FILE5_02
FILE5_03
FILE5_04
FILE5_07
FILE5_08
FILE5_09
FILE5_10
FILE5_11
FILE5_12
FILE5_13
FILE5_14
FILE5_15
FILE5_16
FILE5_17
FILE5_18
FILE5_19
FILE5_20
FILE5_21
FILE5_22
FILE5_23
FILE5_24
FILE5_25
FILE5_26
FILE5_27
FILE5_28
FILE5_29
FILE5_30
FILE5_31
pre-rrt-big-changes-post-4-23

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "191730419508807807995728450003017890109",
                "255685428453647614123441016389726967408",
                "165778089394274387787587373511134378635",
                "332407869254594291647053825146415379105",
                "330899916478574045905968768894139584839",
                "158136468176192798324936030520550183940",
                "193169790860533737710285639127229560049"
            ]
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/readelf.c"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793",
        "id": "CVE-2017-1000249-fd5cd05d"
    }
]