USN-2494-1: file vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• file - Tool to determine file types

Details

Francisco Alonso discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF
files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to crash, resulting
in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3710)

Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files.
An attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting
in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8116)

Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly limited recursion. An
attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in
a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8117)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10

• file - 1:5.19-1ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04

• file - 1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 12.04

• file - 5.09-2ubuntu0.6

Ubuntu 10.04

• file - 5.03-5ubuntu1.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-3710
• CVE-2014-8116
• CVE-2014-8117

Related notices

• USN-2391-1: php5-tidy, php5-curl, php5-xmlrpc, libapache2-mod-php5, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-intl, php5-xsl, php5-readline, php5-gd, php5-cli, php5-recode, php5-odbc, php5-sqlite, php5-fpm, php-pear, php5-mysql, php5-cgi, php5-pspell, php5-ldap, php5-gmp, php5-enchant, php5, php5-common, php5-mysqlnd, php5-sybase, php5-snmp, php5-dev, php5-pgsql, libphp5-embed
• USN-2535-1: php5-tidy, php5-curl, php5-xmlrpc, libapache2-mod-php5, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-intl, php5-xsl, php5-readline, php5-gd, php5-cli, php5-recode, php5-odbc, php5-sqlite, php5-fpm, php-pear, php5-mysql, php5-cgi, php5-pspell, php5-ldap, php5-gmp, php5-enchant, php5, php5-common, php5-mysqlnd, php5-sybase, php5-snmp, php5-dev, php5-pgsql, libphp5-embed