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amazonAmazonALAS-2014-304
HistoryMar 13, 2014 - 6:12 p.m.

Medium: file

2014-03-1318:12:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.058 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.3%

Issue Overview:

Fine Free file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash) via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file.

Affected Packages:

file

Issue Correction:
Run yum update file to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    file-debuginfo-5.11-13.14.amzn1.i686  
    file-devel-5.11-13.14.amzn1.i686  
    file-static-5.11-13.14.amzn1.i686  
    file-5.11-13.14.amzn1.i686  
    file-libs-5.11-13.14.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    python-magic-5.11-13.14.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    file-5.11-13.14.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    file-debuginfo-5.11-13.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-5.11-13.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-static-5.11-13.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-devel-5.11-13.14.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-libs-5.11-13.14.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-1943

Mitre: CVE-2014-1943

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.058 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.3%