Advisories ยป 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

SRPMS

3/core