Bug 1174606 – CVE-2014-8117 file: denial of service issue (resource consumption)

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Bug 1174606 - (CVE-2014-8117) CVE-2014-8117 file: denial of service issue (resource consumption)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8117 file: denial of service issue (resource consumption)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-8117

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1174608 1238984 1284826
Blocks:	1171586 1210268 1278736
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Reported:	2014-12-15 23:41 EST by Murray McAllister
Modified:	2016-06-13 07:09 EDT (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	file 5.21
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 consume an excessive amount of system resources.
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Last Closed:	2016-05-11 02:49:48 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:2155	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: file security and bug fix update	2015-11-19 03:39:11 EST
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 Murray McAllister 2014-12-15 23:41:25 EST

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported a denial of service issue (resource consumption) in the ELF parser used by file(1). Using file(1) on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service (resource consumption).

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c

Due to some regressions found when testing, the following commits are also required:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/8a905717660395b38ec4966493f6f1cf2f33946c
https://github.com/file/file/commit/90018fe22ff8b74a22fcd142225b0a00f3f12677
https://github.com/file/file/commit/6bf45271eb8e0e6577b92042ce2003ba998d1686

Refer also to bug 1171580 (CVE-2014-8116).

Acknowledgements:

Name: Thomas Jarosch (Intra2net AG)

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-12-16 00:10:17 EST

Created file tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1174608]

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-02-18 00:55:28 EST

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 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 03:09:56 EST

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 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 15:47:34 EDT

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

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