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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201209-14.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201209-14">
<title>file: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in file could result in Denial of Service.</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">file</product>
<announced>2012-09-26</announced>
<revised count="1">2012-09-26</revised>
<bug>427368</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-apps/file" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">5.11</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">5.11</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for
patterns.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Multiple out-of-bounds read errors and invalid pointer dereference
errors have been found in cdf.c.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
Composite Document File (CDF) using file, possibly resulting in a Denial
of Service condition.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All file users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/file-5.11"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1571">CVE-2012-1571</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-07-22T16:44:09Z">ackle</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2012-09-26T11:11:29Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>