It was reported [1] that file versions prior to 5.22 did not limit the number of ELF notes processed, which could lead to a local resource exhaustion. Upstream fix: https://github.com/file/file/commit/ce90e05774dd77d86cfc8dfa6da57b32816841c4 This issue seems to be introduced here: https://github.com/file/file/commit/956a45ab1c54b11304b367056f41905e72a02380#diff-bc5c24ef9f39a5f4963ca28ecbc645b3L423 which ended up in 5.08 release. [1]: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001653.html
Created file tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1180640]
*** Bug 1175082 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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