openSUSE Security Update: file: fixed potential CPU consumption problem ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:0481-1 Rating: moderate References: #869906 Cross-References: CVE-2013-7345 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
file was updated to fix extensive backtracking in awk rule regular expression which could lead to a CPU consumption denial of service.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 12.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2014-270
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):
file-5.11-12.23.1 file-debuginfo-5.11-12.23.1 file-debugsource-5.11-12.23.1 file-devel-5.11-12.23.1 libmagic-data-5.11-12.23.1 libmagic1-5.11-12.23.1 libmagic1-debuginfo-5.11-12.23.1 python-magic-5.11-12.23.1
- openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64):
libmagic1-32bit-5.11-12.23.1 libmagic1-debuginfo-32bit-5.11-12.23.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-7345.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/869906