USN-2494-1: file vulnerabilities
4 February 2015
file could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
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
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-2391-1: php5, php5-enchant, php5-curl, php-pear, libphp5-embed, php5-xsl, php5-sqlite, php5-intl, php5-cli, php5-sybase, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-snmp, php5-cgi, php5-pgsql, libapache2-mod-php5, php5-common, php5-ldap, php5-xmlrpc, php5-fpm, php5-gd, php5-mysqlnd, php5-gmp, php5-odbc, php5-recode, php5-tidy, php5-readline, php5-pspell, php5-mysql, php5-dev
- USN-2535-1: php5, php5-enchant, php5-curl, php-pear, libphp5-embed, php5-xsl, php5-sqlite, php5-intl, php5-cli, php5-sybase, libapache2-mod-php5filter, php5-snmp, php5-cgi, php5-pgsql, libapache2-mod-php5, php5-common, php5-ldap, php5-xmlrpc, php5-fpm, php5-gd, php5-mysqlnd, php5-gmp, php5-odbc, php5-recode, php5-tidy, php5-readline, php5-pspell, php5-mysql, php5-dev