USN-2494-1

Francisco Alonso discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3710)

Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8116)

Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly limited recursion. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8117)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / file

Package

Name: file
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/file@1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3

Affected versions

5.*

5.11-2ubuntu4

1:5.*

1:5.14-2ubuntu1

1:5.14-2ubuntu2

1:5.14-2ubuntu3

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1

1:5.14-2ubuntu3.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3",
            "binary_name": "file"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3",
            "binary_name": "libmagic-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3",
            "binary_name": "libmagic1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3",
            "binary_name": "python-magic"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3",
            "binary_name": "python3-magic"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

{
    "cves_map": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "cves": [
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "low"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2014-3710"
            },
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "medium"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2014-8116"
            },
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "low"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2014-8117"
            }
        ]
    }
}