CVE-2019-18218

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18218
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-18218.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-18218
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-10-21T05:15:10Z
Modified
2025-10-14T16:54:49.412386Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

cdfreadpropertyinfo in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDFVECTOR elements, which allows a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write).

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
46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84

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
FILE5_32
FILE5_33
FILE5_34
FILE5_35
FILE5_36
FILE5_37
pre-rrt-big-changes-post-4-23

Database specific 

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                "function": "cdf_read_property_info"
            },
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