Bug 234817 - file reports wrong filetype for microsoft word file
Summary: file reports wrong filetype for microsoft word file
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: file
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
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Assignee: Martin Bacovsky
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: 249582 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-04-02 10:02 UTC by Ditesh Kumar
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-20 13:57:39 UTC
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Example of file that gives false positive (989.00 KB, application/msword)
2007-04-02 10:02 UTC, Ditesh Kumar 		no flags Details
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Description Ditesh Kumar 2007-04-02 10:02:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

file reports wrong filetype for attached Microsoft Word file. This is due to a
false positive in /usr/share/file/magic on line 9173.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

4.19-2


How reproducible:

It can be reproduced as follows


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save attached file to disk.
2. run 'file sealedbid.doc'
3. output should be 'Microsoft Office Document' and not 'Microsoft Installer'
  
Actual results:

Output is 'Microsoft Installer'

Expected results:

Output is 'Microsoft Office Document'

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ditesh Kumar 2007-04-02 10:02:09 UTC 
Created attachment 151412 [details]
Example of file that gives false positive
Comment 2 Adam Huffman 2007-06-22 11:21:22 UTC 
I have seen this too.
Comment 3 Paul W. Frields 2007-07-25 20:02:05 UTC 
See page 8 of the OpenOffice.org Compound Document file format analysis, at
http://sc.openoffice.org/compdocfileformat.pdf -- compare this to line 9464-9465
of the current /usr/share/magic from the file-4.21-1.fc7 package.  Only the
first 8 bytes should be used as an identifier, the rest can vary.  Lines 9464
and 9465 should be reversed for a proper identification.
Comment 4 Martin Bacovsky 2007-08-20 13:27:22 UTC 
*** Bug 249582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Martin Bacovsky 2007-08-20 13:57:39 UTC 
Thanks to Paul for usefull link. This issue should be fixed in RAWHIDE.
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