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Bug 1154802

Summary: file reports "data" instead of zip file when the first file zipped is a file named "mime"
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jonathan Works <jgworks>
Component: fileAssignee: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Marek Marusic <mmarusic>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.5CC: a.sigachev, jorton, mmarusic, szidek
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: file-5.04-22.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-05-10 19:47:00 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jonathan Works 2014-10-20 19:33:43 UTC 
Description of problem:
The file command reports the wrong file type when the first file or directory in a zip archive is named "mime".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
file.x86_64 0:5.04-21.el6

How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
# echo mime > mime
# zip mime.zip mime
  adding: mime (stored 0%)
# file mime.zip
mime.zip: data

Actual results:
file command reports "data" for a zip file

Expected results:
# echo notmime > notmime
# zip notmime.zip notmime
  adding: notmime (stored 0%)
# file notmime.zip
notmime.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract


Additional info:
file-4.17-15.el5_3.1 does not have this issue.

http://fpaste.org/143616/38329531/
fpaste includes full commands with hex dump of each file.
Comment 3 Jan Kaluža 2014-10-31 06:12:34 UTC 
*** Bug 1158950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 19:47:00 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

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