CVE-2019-8905: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printable, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10360.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• File Project File: version 5.35 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 42.3 only

Published 2019-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.