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Secunia Advisory SA25544

Mandriva update for file
Secunia Advisory SA25544
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2007-06-06
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Operating System
Mandriva Linux 2007.0

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-2026 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2007-2799 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Mandriva has issued an update for file. This fixes a vulnerability and a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA24548

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.


Solution
Apply updated packages.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114

Other references
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