The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0760 advisory.

    The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data the file contains. It     can identify many different file types, including Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) binary files,     system libraries, RPM packages, and different graphics formats.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Multiple flaws were found in the file regular expression rules for detecting various files. A remote     attacker could use these flaws to cause file to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2014-3538)

    * A denial of service flaw was found in the way file parsed certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files.
    A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash file via a specially crafted CDF file. (CVE-2014-3587)

    * Multiple flaws were found in the way file parsed Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files. A remote     attacker could use these flaws to cause file to crash, disclose portions of its memory, or consume an     excessive amount of system resources. (CVE-2014-3710, CVE-2014-8116, CVE-2014-8117, CVE-2014-9620,     CVE-2014-9653)

    Red Hat would like to thank Thomas Jarosch (Intra2net AG) for reporting CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117.
    The CVE-2014-3538 issue was discovered by Jan Kalua (Red Hat Web Stack Team) and the CVE-2014-3710 issue     was discovered by Francisco Alonso (Red Hat Product Security).

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Release Notes     and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 6 : file (RHSA-2016:0760)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 91074

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