Bug 1175083 - file: denial of service issue (resource consumption) related to string processing
Summary: file: denial of service issue (resource consumption) related to string proces...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1180642
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1180646
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Reported: 2014-12-17 06:11 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-03-30 14:54:33 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-12-17 06:11:36 UTC 
A denial of service issue (resource consumption) was reported in the way file(1) handled strings in ELF binaries. Using file(1) on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service.

Upstream report:

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001654.html

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c

Reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1067
Comment 2 Francisco Alonso 2015-03-30 14:54:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1180642 ***
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