Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59126
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-439-1 (file)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-439-1 (file)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to file announced via advisory USN-439-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. Details follow: Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered that file did not correctly check the size of allocated heap memory. If a user were tricked into examining a specially crafted file with the file utility, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 5.10: libmagic1 4.12-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libmagic1 4.16-0ubuntu3.1 Ubuntu 6.10: libmagic1 4.17-2ubuntu1.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-439-1 Risk factor : Critical
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-1536 Bugtraq: 20070825 OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/477861/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20070828 Re: OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/477950/100/0/threaded http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2007/000161.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html 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 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 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0124.html http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.512926 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:005 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_5_sr.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2007:040 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_40_file.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-439-1 CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#606700 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/606700 BugTraq ID: 23021 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23021 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10658 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1040 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017796 http://secunia.com/advisories/24548 http://secunia.com/advisories/24604 http://secunia.com/advisories/24616 http://secunia.com/advisories/24617 http://secunia.com/advisories/24592 http://secunia.com/advisories/24608 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 XForce ISS Database: openbsd-file-bo(36283) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36283
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