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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201209-14">
+ <title>file: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in file could result in Denial of Service.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">file</product>
+ <announced>2012-09-26</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2012-09-26</revised>
+ <bug>427368</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/file" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">5.11</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">5.11</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for
+ patterns.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple out-of-bounds read errors and invalid pointer dereference
+ errors have been found in cdf.c.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
+ Composite Document File (CDF) using file, possibly resulting in a Denial
+ of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All file users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/file-5.11"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1571">CVE-2012-1571</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-07-22T16:44:09Z">ackle</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2012-09-26T11:11:29Z">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>