Integer underflow in the "file" program before 4.20

Thomas Vogt thomas at bsdunix.ch
Thu Mar 29 14:46:10 UTC 2007


Hello

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1536
"Integer underflow in the file_printf function in the "file" program
before 4.20 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via
a file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow."

Is FreeBSD 5.x/6.x affected too? It looks the System has file 4.12. The
port has 4.20.

Regards,
Thomas
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