CVE-2019-8904

file: stack-based buffer over-read in do_bid_note in readelf.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.4

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 18, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

do_bid_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printf and file_vprintf.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read