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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58394
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:114 (file)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to file
announced via advisory MDKSA-2007:114.

The update to correct CVE-2007-1536 (MDKSA-2007:067), a buffer overflow
in the file_printf() function, introduced a new integer overflow as
reported by Colin Percival. This flaw, if an atacker could trick a
user into running file on a specially crafted file, could possibly
lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running file (CVE-2007-2799).

As well, in file 4.20, flawed regular expressions to identify OS/2
REXX files could lead to a denial of service via CPU consumption
(CVE-2007-2026).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Affected: 2007.0, 2007.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0


Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2007:114

Risk factor : Critical

CVSS Score:
9.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-1536
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
BugTraq ID: 23021
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23021
Bugtraq: 20070825 OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477861/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20070828 Re: OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477950/100/0/threaded
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#606700
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/606700
Debian Security Information: DSA-1274 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1274
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-07:04
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:04.file.asc
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-26.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-19.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:067
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2007/000161.html
NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2008-001
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-001.txt.asc
OpenBSD Security Advisory: [4.0] 20070709 015: SECURITY FIX: July 9, 2007
http://openbsd.org/errata40.html#015_file
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10658
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0124.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017796
http://secunia.com/advisories/24548
http://secunia.com/advisories/24592
http://secunia.com/advisories/24604
http://secunia.com/advisories/24608
http://secunia.com/advisories/24616
http://secunia.com/advisories/24617
http://secunia.com/advisories/24723
http://secunia.com/advisories/24754
http://secunia.com/advisories/25133
http://secunia.com/advisories/25393
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402
http://secunia.com/advisories/25931
http://secunia.com/advisories/25989
http://secunia.com/advisories/27307
http://secunia.com/advisories/27314
http://secunia.com/advisories/29179
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.512926
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2007:040 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_40_file.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:005 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_5_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-439-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1040
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939
XForce ISS Database: openbsd-file-bo(36283)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36283
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2799
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
BugTraq ID: 24146
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146
Bugtraq: 20070524 FLEA-2007-0022-1: file (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1343 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1343
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-25.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114
http://osvdb.org/38498
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11012
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0391.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018140
http://secunia.com/advisories/25394
http://secunia.com/advisories/25544
http://secunia.com/advisories/25578
http://secunia.com/advisories/26203
http://secunia.com/advisories/26294
http://secunia.com/advisories/26415
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-439-2
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
XForce ISS Database: file-assert-code-execution(34731)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34731
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2026
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user
http://secunia.com/advisories/24918
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