USN-4172-2

It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain malformed files. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / file

Package

Name: file
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/file@1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4+esm1

Affected versions

5.*

5.11-2ubuntu4

1:5.*

1:5.14-2ubuntu1

1:5.14-2ubuntu2

1:5.14-2ubuntu3

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.2

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4+esm1",
            "binary_name": "file"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4+esm1",
            "binary_name": "libmagic-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4+esm1",
            "binary_name": "libmagic1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4+esm1",
            "binary_name": "python-magic"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.4+esm1",
            "binary_name": "python3-magic"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

{
    "cves_map": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "cves": [
            {
                "id": "CVE-2019-18218",
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "medium"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}