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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-391 (file)

From:  "Martin Bacovsky" <mbacovsk@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: file-4.19-2.fc6
Date:  Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:07:48 -0400

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-391 2007-03-30 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : file Version : 4.19 Release : 2.fc6 Summary : A utility for determining file types. Description : 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. You should install the file package, since the file command is such a useful utility. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: this issue should fix CVE-2007-1536 (heap overflow that can result in arbitrary code execution) --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Fri Mar 30 2007 Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk@redhat.com> - 4.19-2 - Resolves: #233164: CVE-2007-1536 file 4.20 fixes a heap overflow in that can result in arbitrary code execution --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... e7bdddcdf438aebd892539ec9d09372f7cd53598 SRPMS/file-4.19-2.fc6.src.rpm e7bdddcdf438aebd892539ec9d09372f7cd53598 noarch/file-4.19-2.fc6.src.rpm 3dc4ec26b7b4dee9790219eff7c97b88cf30569f ppc/file-4.19-2.fc6.ppc.rpm 0ce9d0ecfe1e89cd4ae5eaeb1f4a2a85bc3c0761 ppc/debug/file-debuginfo-4.19-2.fc6.ppc.rpm 177cddd401a4f94a7427d0d3689fe4e7c77b9326 x86_64/file-4.19-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm e1624a2ac23c2932d4457090f8c05d7f81fec2d1 x86_64/debug/file-debuginfo-4.19-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm 36730bb2f1450e46ac808048d621351d4080ae1f i386/file-4.19-2.fc6.i386.rpm 4953b27f3f26be7b4153280382618f41e1e687d5 i386/debug/file-debuginfo-4.19-2.fc6.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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