An update for file is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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 Kaluza (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.

CVE-2014-8116 The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities.

CVE-2014-8117 softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.

The Docker images provided with SUSE CaaS Platform 2.0 have been updated to include the following updates: binutils :

  - Update to version 2.29

  - 18750 bsc#1030296 CVE-2014-9939

  - 20891 bsc#1030585 CVE-2017-7225

  - 20892 bsc#1030588 CVE-2017-7224

  - 20898 bsc#1030589 CVE-2017-7223

  - 20905 bsc#1030584 CVE-2017-7226

  - 20908 bsc#1031644 CVE-2017-7299

  - 20909 bsc#1031656 CVE-2017-7300

  - 20921 bsc#1031595 CVE-2017-7302

  - 20922 bsc#1031593 CVE-2017-7303

  - 20924 bsc#1031638 CVE-2017-7301

  - 20931 bsc#1031590 CVE-2017-7304

  - 21135 bsc#1030298 CVE-2017-7209

  - 21137 bsc#1029909 CVE-2017-6965

  - 21139 bsc#1029908 CVE-2017-6966

  - 21156 bsc#1029907 CVE-2017-6969

  - 21157 bsc#1030297 CVE-2017-7210

  - 21409 bsc#1037052 CVE-2017-8392

  - 21412 bsc#1037057 CVE-2017-8393

  - 21414 bsc#1037061 CVE-2017-8394

  - 21432 bsc#1037066 CVE-2017-8396

  - 21440 bsc#1037273 CVE-2017-8421

  - 21580 bsc#1044891 CVE-2017-9746

  - 21581 bsc#1044897 CVE-2017-9747

  - 21582 bsc#1044901 CVE-2017-9748

  - 21587 bsc#1044909 CVE-2017-9750

  - 21594 bsc#1044925 CVE-2017-9755

  - 21595 bsc#1044927 CVE-2017-9756

  - 21787 bsc#1052518 CVE-2017-12448

  - 21813 bsc#1052503, CVE-2017-12456, bsc#1052507,     CVE-2017-12454, bsc#1052509, CVE-2017-12453,     bsc#1052511, CVE-2017-12452, bsc#1052514,     CVE-2017-12450, bsc#1052503, CVE-2017-12456,     bsc#1052507, CVE-2017-12454, bsc#1052509,     CVE-2017-12453, bsc#1052511, CVE-2017-12452,     bsc#1052514, CVE-2017-12450

  - 21933 bsc#1053347 CVE-2017-12799

  - 21990 bsc#1058480 CVE-2017-14333

  - 22018 bsc#1056312 CVE-2017-13757

  - 22047 bsc#1057144 CVE-2017-14129

  - 22058 bsc#1057149 CVE-2017-14130

  - 22059 bsc#1057139 CVE-2017-14128

  - 22113 bsc#1059050 CVE-2017-14529

  - 22148 bsc#1060599 CVE-2017-14745

  - 22163 bsc#1061241 CVE-2017-14974

  - 22170 bsc#1060621 CVE-2017-14729

  - Make compressed debug section handling explicit, disable     for old products and enable for gas on all architectures     otherwise. [bsc#1029995]

  - Remove empty rpath component removal optimization from     to workaround CMake rpath handling. [bsc#1025282]

  - Fix alignment frags for aarch64 (bsc#1003846) coreutils :

  - Fix df(1) to no longer interact with excluded file     system types, so for example specifying -x nfs no longer     hangs with problematic nfs mounts. (bsc#1026567)

  - Ensure df -l no longer interacts with dummy file system     types, so for example no longer hangs with problematic     NFS mounted via system.automount(5). (bsc#1043059)

  - Significantly speed up df(1) for huge mount lists.
    (bsc#965780) file :

  - update to version 5.22.

  - CVE-2014-9621: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a long     string. (bsc#913650)

  - CVE-2014-9620: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a large     number of notes. (bsc#913651)

  - CVE-2014-9653: readelf.c in file did not consider that     pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the     available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF     file. (bsc#917152)

  - CVE-2014-8116: The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1)     program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid     capabilities. (bsc#910253)

  - CVE-2014-8117: softmagic.c in file did not properly     limit recursion, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via     unspecified vectors. (bsc#910253)

  - Fixed a memory corruption during rpmbuild (bsc#1063269)

  - Backport of a fix for an increased printable string     length as found in file 5.30 (bsc#996511)

  - file command throws 'Composite Document File V2     Document, corrupt: Can't read SSAT' error against excel     97/2003 file format. (bsc#1009966) gcc7 :

  - Support for specific IBM Power9 processor instructions.

  - Support for specific IBM zSeries z14 processor     instructions.

  - New packages cross-npvtx-gcc7 and nvptx-tools added to     the Toolchain Module for specific NVIDIA Card offload     support. gzip :

  - fix mishandling of leading zeros in the end-of-block     code (bsc#1067891) libsolv :

  - Many fixes and improvements for cleandeps.

  - Always create dup rules for 'distupgrade' jobs.

  - Use recommends also for ordering packages.

  - Fix splitprovides handling with addalreadyrecommended     turned off. (bsc#1059065)

  - Expose solver_get_recommendations() in bindings.

  - Fix bug in solver_prune_to_highest_prio_per_name     resulting in bad output from     solver_get_recommendations().

  - Support 'without' and 'unless' dependencies.

  - Use same heuristic as upstream to determine source RPMs.

  - Fix memory leak in bindings.

  - Add pool_best_solvables() function.

  - Fix 64bit integer parsing from RPM headers.

  - Enable bzip2 and xz/lzma compression support.

  - Enable complex/rich dependencies on distributions with     RPM 4.13+. libtool :

  - Add missing dependencies and provides to baselibs.conf     to make sure libltdl libraries are properly installed.
    (bsc#1056381) libzypp :

  - Fix media handling in presence of a repo path prefix.
    (bsc#1062561)

  - Fix RepoProvideFile ignoring a repo path prefix.
    (bsc#1062561)

  - Remove unused legacy notify-message script.
    (bsc#1058783)

  - Support multiple product licenses in repomd.
    (fate#322276)

  - Propagate 'rpm --import' errors. (bsc#1057188)

  - Fix typos in zypp.conf. openssl :

  - CVE-2017-3735: openssl1,openssl: Malformed X.509     IPAdressFamily could cause OOB read (bsc#1056058)

  - CVE-2017-3736: openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on     x86_64 (bsc#1066242)

  - Out of bounds read+crash in DES_fcrypt (bsc#1065363)

  - openssl DEFAULT_SUSE cipher list is missing ECDHE-ECDSA     ciphers (bsc#1055825) perl: Security issues for perl :

  - CVE-2017-12837: Heap-based buffer overflow in the     S_regatom function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before     5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write) via a regular expression with a escape and the     case-insensitive modifier. (bnc#1057724)

  - CVE-2017-12883: Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N     function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and     5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to     disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of     service (application crash) via a crafted regular     expression with an invalid escape. (bnc#1057721)

  - CVE-2017-6512: Race condition in the rmtree and     remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before     2.13 for Perl allows attackers to set the mode on     arbitrary files via vectors involving     directory-permission loosening logic. (bnc#1047178) Bug     fixes for perl :

  - backport set_capture_string changes from upstream     (bsc#999735)

  - reformat baselibs.conf as source validator workaround     systemd :

  - unit: When JobTimeoutSec= is turned off, implicitly turn     off JobRunningTimeoutSec= too. (bsc#1048605,     bsc#1004995)

  - compat-rules: Generate compat by-id symlinks with 'nvme'     prefix missing and warn users that have broken symlinks.
    (bsc#1063249)

  - compat-rules: Allow to specify the generation number     through the kernel command line.

  - scsi_id: Fixup prefix for pre-SPC inquiry reply.
    (bsc#1039099)

  - tmpfiles: Remove old ICE and X11 sockets at boot.

  - tmpfiles: Silently ignore any path that passes through     autofs. (bsc#1045472)

  - pam_logind: Skip leading /dev/ from PAM_TTY field before     passing it on.

  - shared/machine-pool: Fix another mkfs.btrfs checking.
    (bsc#1053595)

  - shutdown: Fix incorrect fscanf() result check.

  - shutdown: Don't remount,ro network filesystems.
    (bsc#1035386)

  - shutdown: Don't be fooled when detaching DM devices with     BTRFS. (bsc#1055641)

  - bash-completion: Add support for --now. (bsc#1053137)

  - Add convert-lib-udev-path.sh script to convert /lib/udev     directory into a symlink pointing to /usr/lib/udev when     upgrading from SLE11. (bsc#1050152)

  - Add a rule to teach hotplug to offline containers     transparently. (bsc#1040800) timezone :

  - Northern Cyprus switches from +03 to +02/+03 on     2017-10-29

  - Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21

  - Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01

  - Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01

  - Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05

  - Turks and Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on     2018-11-04

  - Corrections to past DST transitions

  - Move oversized Canada/East-Saskatchewan to 'backward'     file

  - zic(8) and the reference runtime now reject multiple     leap seconds within 28 days of each other, or leap     seconds before the Epoch. util-linux :

  - Allow unmounting of filesystems without calling stat()     on the mount point, when '-c' is used. (bsc#1040968)

  - Fix an infinite loop, a crash and report the correct     minimum and maximum frequencies in lscpu for some     processors. (bsc#1055446)

  - Fix a lscpu failure on Sydney Amazon EC2 region.
    (bsc#1066500)

  - If multiple subvolumes are mounted, report the default     subvolume. (bsc#1039276) velum :

  - Fix logout issue on DEX download page * page doesn't     exist (bsc#1066611)

  - Handle invalid sessions more user friendly

  - Fix undesired minimum nodes alert blink (bsc#1066371)     wicked :

  - A regression in wicked was causing the hostname not to     be set correctly via DHCP in some cases     (bsc#1057007,bsc#1050258)

  - Configure the interface MTU correctly even in cases     where the interface was up already (bsc#1059292)

  - Don't abort the process that adds configures routes if     one route fails (bsc#1036619)

  - Handle DHCP4 user-class ids properly (bsc#1045522)

  - ethtool: handle channels parameters (bsc#1043883) zypper :

  - Locale: Fix possible segmentation fault. (bsc#1064999)

  - Add summary hint if product is better updated by a     different command. This is mainly used by rolling     distributions like openSUSE Tumbleweed to remind their     users to use 'zypper dup' to update (not zypper up or     patch). (bsc#1061384)

  - Unify '(add|modify)(repo|service)' property related     arguments.

  - Fixed 'add' commands supporting to set only a subset of     properties.

  - Introduced '-f/-F' as preferred short option for
    --[no-]refresh in all four commands. (bsc#661410,     bsc#1053671)

  - Fix missing package names in installation report.
    (bsc#1058695)

  - Differ between unsupported and packages with unknown     support status. (bsc#1057634)

  - Return error code '107' if an RPM's %post configuration     script fails, but only if ZYPPER_ON_CODE12_RETURN_107=1     is set in the environment. (bsc#1047233)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2015-693:01 advisory.

    The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the     type of data contained by the file.  File can identify many different     file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and     different graphics formats.
    Security issues fixed with this release:
    CVE-2014-0207     The cdf_read_short_sector function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as     used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before     5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted CDF file.
    CVE-2014-0237     The cdf_unpack_summary_info function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo     component in PHP before 5.4.29 and 5.5.x before 5.5.13 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (performance degradation) by     triggering many file_printf calls.
    CVE-2014-0238     The cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo component     in PHP before 5.4.29 and 5.5.x before 5.5.13 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or out-of-bounds memory     access) via a vector that (1) has zero length or (2) is too long.
    CVE-2014-3478     Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before     5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x     before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING     conversion.
    CVE-2014-3479     The cdf_check_stream_offset function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as     used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before     5.5.14, relies on incorrect sector-size data, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a     crafted stream offset in a CDF file.
    CVE-2014-3480     The cdf_count_chain function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as used in     the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14,     does not properly validate sector-count data, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a     crafted CDF file.
    CVE-2014-3487     The cdf_read_property_info function in file before 5.19, as used in     the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14,     does not properly validate a stream offset, which allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a     crafted CDF file.
    CVE-2014-3538     file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read     during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers     backtracking during processing of an awk rule.  NOTE: this     vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.
    CVE-2014-3587     Integer overflow in the cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in     file through 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before     5.4.32 and 5.5.x before 5.5.16, allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) via a crafted CDF file.  NOTE:
    this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for     CVE-2012-1571.
    CVE-2014-3710     The donote function in readelf.c in file through 5.20, as used in the     Fileinfo component in PHP 5.4.34, does not ensure that sufficient note     headers are present, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted     ELF file.
    CVE-2014-8116     The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large     number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid     capabilities.
    CVE-2014-8117     softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion,     which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU     consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.
    CVE-2014-9652     The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in     the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and     5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length     field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which     might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted     file.
    CVE-2014-9653     readelf.c in file before 5.22, as used in the Fileinfo component in     PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does     not consider that pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the     available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (uninitialized memory access) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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

The GNU file utility was updated to version 5.22.

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2014-9621: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a long     string. (bsc#913650)

  - CVE-2014-9620: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a large     number of notes. (bsc#913651)

  - CVE-2014-9653: readelf.c in file did not consider that     pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the     available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF     file. (bsc#917152)

  - CVE-2014-8116: The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1)     program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid     capabilities. (bsc#910253)

  - CVE-2014-8117: softmagic.c in file did not properly     limit recursion, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via     unspecified vectors. (bsc#910253)

Version update to file version 5.22

  - add indirect relative for TIFF/Exif

  - restructure elf note printing to avoid repeated messages

  - add note limit, suggested by Alexander Cherepanov

  - Bail out on partial pread()'s (Alexander Cherepanov)

  - Fix incorrect bounds check in file_printable (Alexander     Cherepanov)

  - PR/405: ignore SIGPIPE from uncompress programs

  - change printable -> file_printable and use it in more     places for safety

  - in ELF, instead of '(uses dynamic libraries)' when     PT_INTERP is present print the interpreter name.

Version update to file version 5.21

  - there was an incorrect free in magic_load_buffers()

  - there was an out of bounds read for some pascal strings

  - there was a memory leak in magic lists

  - don't interpret strings printed from files using the     current locale, convert them to ascii format first.

  - there was an out of bounds read in elf note reads

Update to file version 5.20

  - recognize encrypted CDF documents

  - add magic_load_buffers from Brooks Davis

  - add thumbs.db support

Additional non-security bug fixes :

  - Fixed a memory corruption during rpmbuild (bsc#1063269)

  - Backport of a fix for an increased printable string     length as found in file 5.30 (bsc#996511)

  - file command throws 'Composite Document File V2     Document, corrupt: Can't read SSAT' error against excel     97/2003 file format. (bsc#1009966)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

The GNU file utility was updated to version 5.22. Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2014-9621: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a long     string. (bsc#913650)

  - CVE-2014-9620: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a large     number of notes. (bsc#913651)

  - CVE-2014-9653: readelf.c in file did not consider that     pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the     available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF     file. (bsc#917152)

  - CVE-2014-8116: The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1)     program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid     capabilities. (bsc#910253)

  - CVE-2014-8117: softmagic.c in file did not properly     limit recursion, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via     unspecified vectors. (bsc#910253) Version update to file     version 5.22

  - add indirect relative for TIFF/Exif

  - restructure elf note printing to avoid repeated messages

  - add note limit, suggested by Alexander Cherepanov

  - Bail out on partial pread()'s (Alexander Cherepanov)

  - Fix incorrect bounds check in file_printable (Alexander     Cherepanov)

  - PR/405: ignore SIGPIPE from uncompress programs

  - change printable -> file_printable and use it in more     places for safety

  - in ELF, instead of '(uses dynamic libraries)' when     PT_INTERP is present print the interpreter name. Version     update to file version 5.21

  - there was an incorrect free in magic_load_buffers()

  - there was an out of bounds read for some pascal strings

  - there was a memory leak in magic lists

  - don't interpret strings printed from files using the     current locale, convert them to ascii format first.

  - there was an out of bounds read in elf note reads Update     to file version 5.20

  - recognize encrypted CDF documents

  - add magic_load_buffers from Brooks Davis

  - add thumbs.db support

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-48 (file: Denial of Service)

    An issue with the ELF parser used by the file utility can cause a       resource consumption when reading a  specially crafted ELF binary.
  Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker may be able to cause Denial of Service.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

RedHat reports :

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported a number of denial of service issues (resource consumption) in the ELF parser used by file(1). These issues were fixed in the 5.21 release of file(1), but by mistake are missing from the changelog.

Multiple security issues have been found in file, a tool/library to determine a file type. Processing a malformed file could result in denial of service. Most of the changes are related to parsing ELF files.

As part of the fixes, several limits on aspects of the detection were added or tightened, sometimes resulting in messages like 'recursion limit exceeded' or 'too many program header sections'.

To mitigate such shortcomings, these limits are controllable by a new '-R'/'--recursion' parameter in the file program. Note: A future upgrade for file in squeeze-lts might replace this with the '-P' parameter to keep usage consistent across all distributions.

CVE-2014-8116

The ELF parser (readelf.c) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash).

CVE-2014-8117

softmagic.c does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash).

(no identifier has been assigned so far)

out-of-bounds memory access

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - fix CVE-2014-3538 (unrestricted regular expression     matching)

  - fix #1284826 - try to read ELF header to detect     corrupted one

  - fix #1263987 - fix bugs found by coverity in the patch

  - fix CVE-2014-3587 (incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571)

  - fix CVE-2014-3710 (out-of-bounds read in elf note     headers)

  - fix CVE-2014-8116 (multiple DoS issues (resource     consumption))

  - fix CVE-2014-8117 (denial of service issue (resource     consumption))

  - fix CVE-2014-9620 (limit the number of ELF notes     processed)

  - fix CVE-2014-9653 (malformed elf file causes access to     uninitialized memory)

  - fix #809898 - add support for detection of Python 2.7     byte-compiled files

  - fix #1263987 - fix coredump execfn detection on ppc64     and s390

  - fix #966953 - include msooxml file in magic.mgc     generation

  - fix #966953 - increate the strength of MSOOXML magic     patterns

  - fix #1169509 - add support for Java 1.7 and 1.8

  - fix #1243650 - comment out too-sensitive Pascal magic

  - fix #1080453 - remove .orig files from magic directory

  - fix #1161058 - add support for EPUB

  - fix #1162149 - remove parts of patches patching .orig     files

  - fix #1154802 - fix detection of zip files containing     file named mime

  - fix #1246073 - fix detection UTF8 and UTF16 encoded XML     files

  - fix #1263987 - add new execfn to coredump output to show     the real name of executable which generated the coredump

  - fix #809898 - add support for detection of Python     3.2-3.5 byte-compiled files

  - fix #966953 - backport support for MSOOXML

ID	名称	产品	系列	发布时间	最近更新时间	严重程度
91167	CentOS 6 : file (CESA-2016:0760)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	2016/5/17	2021/1/4	high
97420	F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux file utility vulnerabilities (K16347)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	2017/2/28	2025/12/31	medium
106092	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : CaaS Platform 2.0 images (SUSE-SU-2018:0053-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2018/1/17	2025/11/3	critical
289920	MiracleLinux 7 : file-5.11-31.el7 (AXSA:2015-693:01)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	2026/1/16	2026/1/16	high
104764	openSUSE Security Update : file (openSUSE-2017-1298)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2017/11/27	2025/11/13	high
104777	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : file (SUSE-SU-2017:3048-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2017/11/27	2025/11/13	high
80269	GLSA-201412-48 : file: Denial of Service	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	2014/12/29	2021/1/6	medium
80351	FreeBSD : file -- multiple vulnerabilities (9575259a-92d5-11e4-bce6-d050992ecde8)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	2015/1/5	2021/1/6	medium
82114	Debian DLA-131-1 : file security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2015/3/26	2021/1/11	medium
91074	RHEL 6 : file (RHSA-2016:0760)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2016/5/12	2024/11/4	medium
91155	OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : file (OVMSA-2016-0050)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	2016/5/16	2021/1/4	high

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