Bug 1154802 – file reports "data" instead of zip file when the first file zipped is a file named "mime"

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Bug 1154802 - file reports "data" instead of zip file when the first file zipped is a file named "mime"

Summary:	file reports "data" instead of zip file when the first file zipped is a file ...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	file (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.5
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity low
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Jan Kaluža
QA Contact:	Marek Marusic
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Duplicates:	1158950 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2014-10-20 15:33 EDT by Jonathan Works
Modified:	2016-05-10 15:47 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	file-5.04-22.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-05-10 15:47:00 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0760	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: file security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2016-05-10 18:32:51 EDT

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Description Jonathan Works 2014-10-20 15:33:43 EDT

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 02:12:34 EDT

*** Bug 1158950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 15:47:00 EDT

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

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