Integer underflow in the "file" program before 4.20

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Apr 19 14:37:28 UTC 2007


Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
 > Thomas Vogt wrote:
 > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Hey,
 > 
 > While I haven't confirmed FreeBSD is vulnerable, I assume that is the
 > case.  In any case, we (The FreeBSD Security Team) are working on this
 > isuse.

Any news on this?  It's been more than a month ...

Best regards
   Oliver

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