[v2.7] file: DoS (CVE-2014-1943)
Description
Fine Free file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash) via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file.
•MLIST:[file] 20140211 segfault in magic_buffer
•URL: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001330.html
•MLIST:[file] 20140211 segfault in magic_buffer
•URL: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001334.html
•MLIST:[file] 20140213 segfault in magic_buffer
•URL: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001337.html
•MLIST:[file] 20142010 segfault in magic_buffer
•URL: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001327.html
•CONFIRM: https://github.com/glensc/file/blob/FILE5\_17/ChangeLog
•DEBIAN:DSA-2861
•URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2861
(from redmine: issue id 2695, created on 2014-02-21, closed on 2014-03-03)
- Relations:
- parent #2691 (closed)
- Changesets:
- Revision 2bb44c02 by Natanael Copa on 2014-03-03T11:02:57Z:
main/file: security upgrade to 5.17 (CVE-2014-1943)
fixes #2695