Advisories » MGASA-2014-0252

Updated file packages fix CVE-2014-0237-8

Publication date: 06 Jun 2014
Modification date: 06 Jun 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-0237 , CVE-2014-0238

Description

Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities:

A flaw was found in the way file's Composite Document Files (CDF)
format parser handle CDF files with many summary info entries. The
cdf_unpack_summary_info() function unnecessarily repeatedly read the
info from the same offset. This led to many file_printf() calls in
cdf_file_property_info(), which caused file to use an excessive amount
of CPU time when parsing a specially-crafted CDF file (CVE-2014-0237).

A flaw was found in the way file parsed property information from
Composite Document Files (CDF) files. A property entry with 0 elements
triggers an infinite loop (CVE-2014-0238).
                

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-0237
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-0238
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13460
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0237
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0238

SRPMS

3/core

• file-5.12-8.4.mga3

4/core

• file-5.16-1.3.mga4