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Bug 152865

Summary:	CAN-2004-1304, File ELF Header Unspecified Buffer Overflow
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Legacy	Reporter:	John Dalbec <jpdalbec>
Component:	file	Assignee:	Fedora Legacy Bugs <bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	pekkas
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/7566
Whiteboard:	LEGACY, DEFER
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-08-13 13:01:53 UTC	Type:	---
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Description David Lawrence 2005-03-30 23:30:11 UTC

04.48.16 CVE: Not Available
Platform: Unix
Title: File ELF Header Unspecified Buffer Overflow
Description: The Unix file command is affected by a buffer overflow
vulnerability.  This issue is due to a failure of the application to
properly validate string lengths in the affected files prior to
copying them into static process buffers. This can be leveraged by an
attacker to execute hostile code on the vulnerable system.
Ref: http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/7566



------- Additional Comments From bugzilla.fedora.us 2004-12-14 08:40:43 ----

gentoo has an advisory on it, now, too:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-07.xml



------- Additional Comments From pekkas 2005-02-15 07:21:09 ----

This seems to be CAN-2004-1304.  Red Hat has not bothered to patch this.



------- Bug moved to this database by dkl 2005-03-30 18:30 -------

This bug previously known as bug 2331 at https://bugzilla.fedora.us/
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2331
Originally filed under the Fedora Legacy product and Package request component.

Unknown priority P2. Setting to default priority "normal".
Unknown platform PC. Setting to default platform "All".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2005-04-25 09:58:57 UTC

This was discussed by vendor-sec and found to be a non-issue.  A number of
patches were added to correct issues in file.  The implications of these issues
is that a malformed ELF binary could cause an error, or in the worst case a
crash during operation.  The flaws were not found to be exploitable.

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2005-05-16 11:57:16 UTC

Should this be closed as WONTFIX?

Comment 3 Pekka Savola 2005-11-16 13:14:23 UTC

This doesn't seem to be important enough to fix just on its own, so mark it DEFER.

Comment 4 Jesse Keating 2006-08-13 13:01:53 UTC

This won't be released by Fedora Legacy.