CVE-2019-8904

HIGH 8.8CVE-2019-8904 · Published 18/02/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-8904 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting file (file project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 84.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
file file_project	`= 5.35`	No fix yet

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.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

= 5.35

No fix yet

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