CVE-2007-2026

The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported fo...

file: Integer underflow

Background file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux reported an integer underflow in fileprintf function. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to run the "file" program on a specially crafted file that would...