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<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>
