Re: Bugs in "file" program VU#621745

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 02/29/2012 10:52 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kurt Seifried:
>
> > > We recently pointed the CERT BFF at the ubiquitous "file" command
> > > and found a few bugs.  While we've not proven the bugs to be
> > > exploitable, we've also not ruled out the possibility that they
> > > could be.
> > >
> > > Fixes were committed on Feb 16, 2012: 
> > > https://github.com/glensc/file/commits/master
>
> > If any of these are security issues please let me know and I will
> > assign CVE #'s.
>
> file also provides a library, libmagic.  This could lead to crashes of
> server processes which use libmagic.  Debian will likely release a fix
> as a security update.

Fair enough but I'd like some details before issuing CVE's, like what
are the actual security issues that have been fixed?

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)