CVE-2019-18218

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

This issue affects the file package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. However, this flaw has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate because it is only exploitable if the 32bit version is used, for example when an application uses the 32bit version of libmagic.so.

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