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Gentoo file Denial of Service Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24918
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Release Date:
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2007-04-18
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Popularity:
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5,457 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-2026
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Description:
Gentoo has acknowledged a security issue in file, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The security issue is caused due to certain regular expressions, which can consume all available CPU resources when identifying a specially crafted file. This can be exploited to cause a DoS by e.g. tricking an automated system into identifying a malicious file using the "file" command.
NOTE: Successful exploitation may require that the system uses glibc 2.5.
Solution:
Update to version "sys-apps/file-4.20-r1" or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Conor Edberg
Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml
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