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Bug 174217 - sys-apps/file < 4.21-r1 Denial of Service (CVE-2007-2026)
Summary: sys-apps/file < 4.21-r1 Denial of Service (CVE-2007-2026)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/fo...
Whiteboard: A3 [glsaupdate]
Keywords:
: 181099 181946 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-04-11 21:16 UTC by Matt Drew (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-09-17 18:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Matt Drew (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-11 21:16:13 UTC
file-4.20 has a problem with current glibc (I'm on 2.5) handling of a particular regular expression that identifies OS/2 REXX files.  

This came up in the above URL as a potential Denial of Service for anything that uses file to identify files, includes file code.  I've verified the behavior as a DoS (checking the sample file takes file on the order of 30 minutes).

vapier has already patched this in 4.20-r1, we just need to stabilize it and remove 4.20.  

The issue is not present in file-4.19 (also tested and verified), and is probably not present in lower versions either.
Comment 1 Matt Drew (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-11 21:18:24 UTC
setting status, arches please stabilize sys-apps/file-4.20-r1, thanks!
Comment 2 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-11 21:28:45 UTC
Seems like it's already stable:
angelos@odin ~ % grep KEYWORDS /usr/portage/sys-apps/file/file-4.20-r1.ebuild 
16:KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc ~sparc-fbsd x86 ~x86-fbsd"
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-11 21:35:30 UTC
Nothing to do. :)
Comment 4 Matt Drew (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-11 21:46:48 UTC
yes, I am an idiot. Moving to glsa status.
Comment 5 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-17 22:36:05 UTC
GLSA 200704-13, thanks everybody!
Comment 6 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-07 11:41:22 UTC
*** Bug 181099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-07 11:45:48 UTC
*** Bug 181179 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-07 12:35:38 UTC
Reopening since it seems like it was not properly fixed in 4.21 which is now stable on some arches.

http://marc.info/?l=amavis-user&m=118107086309360&w=2

Vapier please patch.
Comment 9 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-07 22:13:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Reopening since it seems like it was not properly fixed in 4.21 which is now
> stable on some arches.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=amavis-user&m=118107086309360&w=2
> 


i think it is already fixed. "update to file 4.21 or newer"

CVE-2007-2799/GLSA-200705-25 fixes a buffer overflow introduced by the incorrect fix of CVE-2007-1536/GLSA-200703-26.

CVE-2007-2026/GLSA-200704-13 is the regexp DoS issue.

All these issues are fixed in file-4.21.

Letme reclose this bug, feel free to reopen if you disagree.
Comment 10 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-08 06:13:15 UTC
Here we go again:) See under 4. Additional information

An unrelated CVE-2007-2026 DoS vulnerability of a file(1) utility
linked with a POSIX regex(3) library on Linux systems (but not *BSD
systems) is still unresolved in file-4.21, because the offending
two lines in a file 'magic' were not removed by mistake, even though
their correct replacements were added.
Comment 11 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-09 21:45:20 UTC
you're right... i've checked the source, indeed... (lol) back to [ebuild] status then. The following lines should probably be removed from the msdos magic file, but i have not seen any confirmation.

100 regex/c =^\\s*call\\s+rxfuncadd.*sysloadfu OS/2 REXX batch file text
100 regex/c =^\\s*say\ ['"] OS/2 REXX batch file text
Comment 12 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-13 20:40:58 UTC
*** Bug 181946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Matt Drew (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-02 18:48:03 UTC
any word on this?  The source hasn't been updated since May 24th - we could just remove the lines ourselves?
Comment 14 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-07-11 05:50:42 UTC
added 4.21-r1 with patch to remove second regex
Comment 15 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-14 22:19:50 UTC
and here we go again :)
arches, please test and mark stable. Target keywords are:
file-4.21-r1.ebuild:KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc ~sparc-fbsd x86 ~x86-fbsd"
Comment 16 Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev 2007-07-15 08:36:50 UTC
mips stable.
Comment 17 Jonas Pedersen 2007-07-15 09:22:53 UTC
sys-apps/file-4.21-r1  USE="python"

1. Emerges on AMD64. 
2. No collisions etc. 
3. Old version is vulnerable to the file mentioned in URL while 4.21-r1 isn't. 

I known it have not been in the tree for 30 days, but this is security so please mark stable. 


Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:50:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -msse3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -msse3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_DK.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi aiglx alsa amd64 arts atk berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga directfb dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode fam fbcn ffmpeg firefox fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mjpeg mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcre pda pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse3 ssl tcpd test threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xcomposite xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Comment 18 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-15 12:07:35 UTC
alpha/ia64/x86 stable
Comment 19 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-15 16:13:05 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 20 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-15 21:06:10 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 21 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-16 05:40:15 UTC
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 22 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-16 12:16:30 UTC
sparc stable.
Comment 23 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-16 18:52:49 UTC
=sys-apps/file-4.21-r1 stable on ppc64
Comment 24 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-07-16 19:26:08 UTC
Ready for GLSA Update of GLSA 200704-13
Comment 25 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-17 18:06:53 UTC
glsa 200704-13 finally updated, sorry for the delay.