DSA-2861 file - denial of service
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Información sobre el sistema
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Software afectado |
Debian |
Descripción
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It was discovered that file, a file type classification tool, contains aflaw in the handling of indirect magic rules in the libmagic library,which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the filetype of certain files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures projectID CVE-2014-1943 has been assigned to identify this flaw. Additionally,other well-crafted files might result in long computation times (whileusing 100% CPU) and overlong results.
More info:
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2861 |
Identificadores estándar
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Propiedad |
Valor |
CVE |
CVE-2014-1943 and DSA-2861. |