Impact
potential code execution
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A previous security fix for file introduced a new integer overflow in the file_printf() function and potentially be used to execute code.
This has been fixed and updates have been provided.
Since file can be run by automatic scripts, remote exploitation might be possible.
This issue is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2007-2799.
Affected
file on SUSE LINUX 10.1, openSUSE 10.2, SUSE SLES 9, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux POS 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1, SLE SDK 10 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-1536, CVE-2007-2799 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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