Bug 1190116 (CVE-2014-9653)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9653 file: malformed elf file causes access to uninitialized memory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, harald, jkaluza, jorton, ksrot, mmaslano, packaging-team-maint, rcollet, renerinco, security-response-team, stefan, webstack-team
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	file 5.22	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension parsed Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to crash or disclose certain portions of server memory.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2016-05-11 06:50:38 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1190118, 1238984, 1284826
Bug Blocks:	1190117, 1210268, 1278736

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-06 11:43:31 UTC

It was reported [1][2] that a malformed elf file can cause file urility to access invalid memory.
Upstream fixes that correct this:
https://github.com/file/file/commit/445c8fb0ebff85195be94cd9f7e1df89cade5c7f
https://github.com/file/file/commit/e96f86b5311572be1360ee0bb05d4926f8df3189

[1]: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001649.html
[2]: http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=409

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-02-06 11:44:27 UTC

Created file tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1190118]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-02-18 05:55:31 UTC

file-5.22-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Stefan Nuxoll 2015-09-18 23:50:43 UTC

Are there plans (or has this already been) to backport this patch to any EL releases?

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 08:10:12 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2155 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2155.html

Comment 8 Renê Rinco 2016-01-21 18:36:26 UTC

Hi! It will be addressed in RHEL 6 ?

Comment 9 Fabio Olive Leite 2016-01-25 12:43:38 UTC

(In reply to Renê Rinco from comment #8)
> Hi! It will be addressed in RHEL 6 ?

Fixing this on RHEL-6 is not a priority, since the impact is only Low.  It may get fixed in the future as part of another update, but it is not planned at the moment.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 19:47:48 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0760 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html