Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-439-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered that "
file"
did not correctly
check the size of allocated heap memory. If a user were tricked into examining a specially crafted file with the "
file"
utility, a remote
attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
file vulnerability on Ubuntu 5.10 ,
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2007-1536 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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