CVE-2017-1000249: File Project File

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 (Oct 2016) lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buffer with a specially crafted .notes section in an ELF binary. This was fixed in commit 35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 (Aug 2017).

Affected products

• File Project File: version 5.29 only

Published 2017-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.