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Bug 579306 (CVE-2015-8865) - <sys-apps/file-5.23: Buffer over-write in finfo_open with malformed magic file
Summary: <sys-apps/file-5.23: Buffer over-write in finfo_open with malformed magic file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2015-8865
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal major
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=522
Whiteboard: A2 [glsa cve]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-04-08 08:37 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-01-17 23:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Package list:
=sys-apps/file-5.25
Runtime testing required: No
kensington: sanity-check+

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2016-04-08 08:37:50 UTC 
From ${URL} :

Buffer over-write vulnerability in finfo_open triggered by malformed magic file was found, causing 
segfault when running with environment variable USE_ZEND_ALLOC set to 0, and also when compiled 
with ASAN with USE_ZEND_ALLOC set and unset.

This issue was fixed in file-5.23.

Upstream bug (contains reproducer):

http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=522

PHP bug:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71527


@maintainer(s): since the fixed package is already in the tree, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2016-04-11 17:24:42 UTC 
stabilizing file-5.25 should be fine
Comment 2 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-24 10:15:09 UTC 
@arches, please stabilize:

=sys-apps/file-5.25
Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-10 15:44:18 UTC 
ia64/sparc...
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-11 10:40:44 UTC 
sparc stable
Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-01-17 09:21:30 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201701-42 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-42
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).
Comment 6 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-17 09:27:55 UTC 
Reopened for ia64 stable then cleanup.
Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-01-17 14:28:30 UTC 
ia64 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Comment 8 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-01-17 16:25:46 UTC 
commit 0d0ddd19f8af195c7ec4e60a4db7ca3dba756c2f
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 17 16:17:02 2017

    sys-apps/file: Removed old.

    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1