Fedora alert FEDORA-2014-2876 (file)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: file-5.11-12.fc19 
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:44:00 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-2876
2014-02-21 23:49:56
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Name        : file
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 5.11
Release     : 12.fc19
URL         : http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
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.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2014-1943.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 18 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.11-12
- fix #1065837 - fix for CVE-2014-1943
* Thu Aug 22 2013 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.11-11
- fix #985072 - add support for journald files
* Mon Jun 17 2013 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.11-10
- build python-magic as noarch
- fix netpbm detection
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1065836 - CVE-2014-1943 file: infinite recursion
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065836
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