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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:52:30 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Bugs in "file" program VU#621745
* 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.
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