CVE-2019-8906

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-8906
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-8906.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-8906
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (2)
Published
2019-02-18T17:29:01Z
Modified
2026-07-08T19:51:40Z
Severity
  • 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has an out-of-bounds read because memcpy is misused.

Database specific 
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            ],
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                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                    "introduced":  "15.0"
                },
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                    "last_affected":  "15.0"
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}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/file/file

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/file/file
Events
Introduced
d1ff3af7a2c6b38bdbdde7af26b59e3c50a48fff
Last Affected
d1ff3af7a2c6b38bdbdde7af26b59e3c50a48fff
Fixed
2858eaf99f6cc5aae129bcbf1e24ad160240185f
Database specific
Show details 
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    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "5.35"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "5.35"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

5.*
5.35
Other
FILE5_35

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-8906.json"
vanir_signatures 
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        "signature_version":  "v1",
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vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-08T19:51:40Z"