Debian DSA-2861-1 : file - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72537

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that file, a file type classification tool, contains a flaw in the handling of 'indirect' magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project ID CVE-2014-1943 has been assigned to identify this flaw. Additionally, other well-crafted files might result in long computation times (while using 100% CPU) and overlong results.

Solution

Upgrade the file packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.04-5+squeeze3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 5.11-2+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72537

File Name: debian_DSA-2861.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/17/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:file, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1943

DSA: 2861

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