CVE-2019-8906: Apple iPhone OS

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 an out-of-bounds read because memcpy is misused.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: before 12.2 (fixed in 12.2)
• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.14.4 (fixed in 10.14.4)
• Apple tvOS: before 12.2 (fixed in 12.2)
• Apple watchOS: before 5.2 (fixed in 5.2)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• File Project File: version 5.35 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 42.3 only

Published 2019-02-18. Last modified 2026-10-08.