Bug 630732

Summary:	sys-apps/file: Fix always true condition via commit
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	D'juan McDonald (domhnall) <flopwiki>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	base-system
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-09-11 20:54:46 UTC

An issue in file() was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 (Oct 2016) lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buffer with a specially crafted .notes section in an ELF binary. 

This was fixed in commit 35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 (Aug 2017).


Upstream Patch:
(https://github.com/file/file/commit/35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793)

CVE Details:(https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-1000249)

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@maintainer(s), after bump, please call stabilization if needed. Thank you

Daj Uan (jmbailey/mbailey_j)
Gentoo Security Padawan

Comment 1 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-09-11 20:56:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 629872 ***