Security advisory

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  "id": "cff73a654941e1ae125ad485c0655edb206dc54b17405836f8180ad82c9aa76b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-8904",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-8904",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-8904",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-8904",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-8904"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/file/file",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "d1ff3af7a2c6b38bdbdde7af26b59e3c50a48fff"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "d1ff3af7a2c6b38bdbdde7af26b59e3c50a48fff"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.35"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.35"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "5.35",
            "FILE5_35"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-8904.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:03.147715378Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3911-1/",
        "https://bugs.astron.com/view.php?id=62"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.10"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "18.10"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-8904",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440193,
  "published_at": "2019-02-18T17:29:00.94+00:00"
}