Bug 1175083

Summary:	file: denial of service issue (resource consumption) related to string processing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	falonso, fedora, jkaluza, jorton, mmaslano, rcollet, webstack-team
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Bug Blocks:	1180646

Description Murray McAllister 2014-12-17 06:11:36 UTC

A denial of service issue (resource consumption) was reported in the way file(1) handled strings in ELF binaries. Using file(1) on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service.

Upstream report:

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001654.html

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c

Reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1067

Comment 2 Francisco Alonso 2015-03-30 14:54:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1180642 ***