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
0.032 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.8%
Multiple security issues have been found in file, a tool/library to
determine a file type. Processing a malformed file could result in
denial of service. Most of the changes are related to parsing ELF
files.
As part of the fixes, several limits on aspects of the detection were
added or tightened, sometimes resulting in messages like recursion
limit exceeded or too many program header sections.
To mitigate such shortcomings, these limits are controllable by a new
“-R”/“–recursion” parameter in the file program. Note: A future
upgrade for file in squeeze-lts might replace this with the “-P”
parameter to keep usage consistent across all distributions.
(no identifier has been assigned so far)
out-of-bounds memory access
For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in file version 5.04-5+squeeze9