Gentoo FoundationMGASA-2014-0092Updated file package fixes security vulnerability
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%
It was discovered that file before 5.17 contains a flaw in the handling of “indirect” magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files (CVE-2014-1943). Additionally, other well-crafted files might result in long computation times (while using 100% CPU) and overlong results. The affected packages have been patched to correct these flaws.
| OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mageia | 3 | noarch | file | < 5.12-8.1 | file-5.12-8.1.mga3 |
| Mageia | 4 | noarch | file | < 5.16-1.1 | file-5.16-1.1.mga4 |
Related
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%