Executive Summary

Summary
Title file vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3412-1 First vendor Publication 2017-09-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-09-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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 :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.04

Summary:

The file utility could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - file: Tool to determine file types

Details:

Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this to cause file to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04:
file 1:5.29-3ubuntu0.1
libmagic1 1:5.29-3ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3412-1
CVE-2017-1000249

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/1:5.29-3ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3412-1

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-09-09 13:25:47
  • Multiple Updates
2017-09-08 00:22:55
  • First insertion