Executive Summary

Summary
Title file: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201412-48 First vendor Publication 2014-12-27
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-12-27
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in file could allow a context-dependent attack to create a Denial of Service condition.

Background

The file utility attempts to identify a file's format by scanning binary data for patterns.

Description

An issue with the ELF parser used by the file utility can cause a resource consumption when reading a specially-crafted ELF binary.

Impact

A context-dependent attacker may be able to cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All file users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/file-5.21"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-8117 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8117

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-48.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-48.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 14
Os 4
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-11-27 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-3048-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-1298.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-28 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL16347.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-09 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20160510_file_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-0760.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-16 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0050.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-16 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0760.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-12 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0760.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20151119_file_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-02 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-2155.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-24 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2155.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-2155.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-1730-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-080.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-145.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-131.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-25 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-497.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2535-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-2020.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-02-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2494-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-09 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3121.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-05 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_9575259a92d511e4bce6d050992ecde8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-29 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201412-48.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-29 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-817.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-12-30 13:25:14
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-28 09:23:40
  • First insertion