Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-18218  

cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDF_VECTOR elements, which allows a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write).

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDF_VECTOR elements, which allows a heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write).

AVG-1083 file 5.37-1 5.38-1 High Testing FS#65073

https://github.com/file/file/commit/46a8443f76cec4b41ec736eca396984c74664f84	
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16780