CVE-2017-1000249

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

015b0cdce1a0abb68ab99510e7fc8d2f77e8ec77

Last Affected

015b0cdce1a0abb68ab99510e7fc8d2f77e8ec77

Fixed

35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793

Fixed

9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d

Database specific

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{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "5.29"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "5.29"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

5.*

5.29

Other

FILE5_29

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-1000249.json"

vanir_signatures

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

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-10-20T13:14:03Z"