Bug 532768 – <sys-apps/file-5.22: two denial of service issues (CVE-2014-{9620,9621})

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2014-12-17 08:45:52 UTC]

From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175083:

A denial of service issue (resource consumption) was reported in the way file(1) handled strings in 
ELF binaries. Using file(1) on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service.

Upstream report:

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001654.html

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c

Reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1067



From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175082:

A denial of service issue (resource consumption) was reported in the way file(1) processed ELF notes. Using file(1) on a specially-crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service.

Upstream report:

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001653.html

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/file/file/commit/ce90e05774dd77d86cfc8dfa6da57b32816841c4

Reference:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1067


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2015-01-03 20:58:17 UTC]

The fixed version is 5.22: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2015/001660.html

[Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2015-01-04 00:10:09 UTC]

(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #1)
> The fixed version is 5.22: http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2015/001660.html

Which is already in the tree. Feel free to start stabilization process.

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2015-01-09 16:14:16 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=sys-apps/file-5.22
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"

[Comment 4 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2015-01-09 16:44:01 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-11 11:13:54 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 6 Andreas Schürch 2015-01-11 15:20:59 UTC]

x86 done.

[Comment 7 Markus Meier 2015-01-11 21:03:46 UTC]

arm stable

[Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo 2015-01-13 10:21:22 UTC]

sparc stable

[Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo 2015-01-14 13:51:53 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 10 Agostino Sarubbo 2015-01-15 08:40:48 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo 2015-01-16 08:09:49 UTC]

ia64 stable

[Comment 12 Yury German 2015-01-18 02:27:10 UTC]

With only one arch left, filing a new GLSA for writing up.

Will wait on full stabilization before release.

[Comment 13 Agostino Sarubbo 2015-01-25 11:21:57 UTC]

alpha stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please add it to the existing request, or file a new one.

[Comment 14 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2015-01-27 12:36:44 UTC]

+  27 Jan 2015; Lars Wendler <[e-mail]> -file-5.17.ebuild,
+  -file-5.19.ebuild, -file-5.20-r1.ebuild, -file-5.21.ebuild,
+  -files/file-5.20-elf-note.patch:
+  Removed vulnerable versions.
+

[Comment 15 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2015-02-01 02:39:22 UTC]

CVE-2014-9621 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9621):
  The ELF parser in file 5.16 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a
  denial of service via a long string.

CVE-2014-9620 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9620):
  The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a
  denial of service via a large number of notes.

[Comment 16 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2015-03-16 19:44:09 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201503-08 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-08
by GLSA coordinator Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene).