A denial of service issue (resource consumption) was reported in the way file(1) processed ELF notes. Using file(1) on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service. Upstream report: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001653.html Upstream fix: https://github.com/file/file/commit/ce90e05774dd77d86cfc8dfa6da57b32816841c4 Reference: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1067
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1180639 ***