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USN-3911-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2019-8904)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2019-03-18 12:50 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
file vulnerabilities
Details
It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain malformed ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
References
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