CVE-2017-1000249

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    CVE-2017-1000249

    Published: 11 Sept 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

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

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 015b0cdce1a0abb68ab99510e7fc8d2f77e8ec77
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    5.29

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High