Advisories » MGASA-2014-0142

Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 31 Mar 2014
Modification date: 31 Mar 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3
CVE: CVE-2013-7345

Description

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in
magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with
unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a
denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a
large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline
characters (CVE-2013-7345).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13105
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-March/130688.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7345

SRPMS

3/core

• file-5.12-8.3.mga3