vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3911-2: file regression

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 13, 2020
Added
Jun 25, 2020
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description


USN-3911-1 fixed vulnerabilities in file. One of the backported security fixes introduced a regression that caused the interpreter string to be truncated. This update fixes the problem.


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Original advisory details:


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

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-fileubuntu-upgrade-libmagic1
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