Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2422-2 file

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2422-2 file -- missing bounds checks

Date Reported:

09 May 2012

Affected Packages:

file

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1571.

More information:

The file type identification tool, file, and its associated library, libmagic, do not properly process malformed files in the Composite Document File (CDF) format, leading to crashes.

Note that after this update, file may return different detection results for CDF files (well-formed or not). The new detections are believed to be more accurate.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.04-5+squeeze2.

We recommend that you upgrade your file packages.