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file: denial of service

Package(s):file CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2026
Created:April 18, 2007 Updated:May 25, 2007
Description: The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0109-1 2007-05-24
Foresight FLEA-2007-0022-1 2007-05-24
Gentoo 200704-13 2007-04-17
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