Bug 1180642 – CVE-2014-9621 file: limit string printing to 100 chars

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Bug 1180642 - (CVE-2014-9621) CVE-2014-9621 file: limit string printing to 100 chars

Summary:	CVE-2014-9621 file: limit string printing to 100 chars

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-9621

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

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Duplicates:	1175083 (view as bug list)
Depends On:	1180643
Blocks:	1180646
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Reported:	2015-01-09 10:48 EST by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2015-11-27 06:48 EST (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	file 5.22
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-01-09 12:22:51 EST
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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-09 10:48:47 EST

It was reported [1] that file versions prior to 5.22 did not limit the number of strings printed, which could lead to a local resource exhaustion and denial of service.

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

This issue seems to be introduced here:
https://github.com/file/file/commit/c8451af8ab0c2e2a93ce93b9c68257d31576cc85
which ended up in 5.16 release.

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

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-01-09 10:49:09 EST

Created file tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1180643]

Comment 3 Francisco Alonso 2015-03-30 10:54:33 EDT

*** Bug 1175083 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2015-11-27 06:38:15 EST

Not Red Hat product was affected by this issue.

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