Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#2448 closed enhancement (fixed)
file 5.03
| Reported by: | Steffen Pankratz | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 6.5 |
| Component: | Book | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
file 5.01 release notes: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2009/000379.html
file 5.02 release notes: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2009/000382.html
file 5.03 release notes: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2009/000383.html
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.03.tar.gz ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/tools/file/file-5.03.tar.gz
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
| Milestone: | → 6.5 |
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comment:2 by , 16 years ago
lwn has a Mandriva update for this (to 5.03) http://lwn.net/Articles/336396/ which indicates it is CVE-2009-1515 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1515
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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From a brief look at the code, the buffer overflow fixes in 5.02 look as if they fix issues in that are present in 6.5-rc1's version of File (5.00). If someone else could take a look please and verify that'd be great. If I've misunderstood the code, feel free to punt this back to 7.0.