Bug 1180642 (CVE-2014-9621)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9621 file: limit string printing to 100 chars
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	harald, jkaluza, jorton, jrusnack, mmaslano, mmcallis, packaging-team-maint, rcollet, webstack-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	file 5.22	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-01-09 17:22:51 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1180643
Bug Blocks:	1180646

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-09 15:48:47 UTC

It was reported [1] that file versions prior to 5.22 did not limit the number of strings printed, which could lead to a local resource exhaustion and denial of service.

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

This issue seems to be introduced here:
https://github.com/file/file/commit/c8451af8ab0c2e2a93ce93b9c68257d31576cc85
which ended up in 5.16 release.

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

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-09 15:49:09 UTC

Created file tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1180643]

Comment 3 Francisco Alonso 2015-03-30 14:54:33 UTC

*** Bug 1175083 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2015-11-27 11:38:15 UTC

Not Red Hat product was affected by this issue.