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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:54:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifrie@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Bugs in "file" program VU#621745
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?
--
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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