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Fedora: FEDORA-2019-18036b898e Critical: File Heap Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2019-18036b898e fixes severe heap overflow vulnerabilities in the file utility, essential for system security and stability
- fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)

Summary

The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the

type of data contained by the file. File can identify many different

file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and

different graphics formats.

- fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)

* Fri Oct 25 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-15

- fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)

* Tue Jun 11 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-14

- fix double free on read error (#1685217)

* Fri Mar 1 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-13

- improve support for Apple formats (#1679455)

* Mon Feb 25 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-12

- remote denial of service in do_core_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8907)

- stack-based buffer over-read in do_core_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8905)

- stack-based buffer over-read in do_bid_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8904)

- out-of-bounds read in do_core_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8906)

* Thu Jan 24 2019 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-9

- Added Linux PowerPC core offsets for Linux + fixed bug #1161911

* Thu Jan 24 2019 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-8

- Fixed bug missidentifying netpbm files (#856092)

* Tue Dec 4 2018 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-7

- Fixed bug misleading qcow2 v2 and v3 files (#1654349)

- Changed bug report URL

* Wed Nov 21 2018 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-6

- Fixed missidentifying locale files bug (#1527398)

* Wed Nov 14 2018 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-5

- reintroduce the python2-magic subpackage needed by python2-bugzilla (#1649547)

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-4

- add magic for eBPF objects (#1648667)

[ 1 ] Bug #1765273 - CVE-2019-18218 file: heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765273

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-18036b898e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 5.34
Release: 15.fc29
Summary: A utility for determining file types

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