FSA/F7/FEDORA-2007-0836

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: file-4.21-1.fc7
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-0836 2007-07-03 09:23:49.500122

Name       : file Product    : Fedora 7 Version    : 4.21 Release    : 1.fc7 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.

You should install the file package, since the file command is such a useful utility.

Update Information:

Update to new upstream 4.21 should also fix CVE-2007-2799 file integer overflow

ChangeLog:

- upgrade to new upstream 4.21 - resolves: #241034: CVE-2007-2799 file integer overflow
 * Tue May 29 2007 Martin Bacovsky  - 4.21-1

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #241034 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241034 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-2799 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2799

Updated packages:

c334d634f1d942796cdeec57b74cf3f2cda41b17 file-4.21-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm e8f85883f7c6ccc00c409cb974249f280c0debd6 file-libs-4.21-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm aa9d0b8a6563269bfc3a51b9450ade15fd04b515 file-devel-4.21-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm fca782875bb9a7bdf86e0b9a52f5d229f615d2db file-debuginfo-4.21-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm e336a7f959c76b24a5b81c5a91fa34f9ed78c9e8 file-libs-4.21-1.fc7.i386.rpm 06e17b6db58b75eb7594a91c581029c9049dd46e file-4.21-1.fc7.i386.rpm c261a20a559ff3d842dd5b0cae91b26a7c9b10ae file-debuginfo-4.21-1.fc7.i386.rpm 34d0031eeb259faecd6109effc9fbfe6cc52e658 file-devel-4.21-1.fc7.i386.rpm d6566d731d71aa63de8cb8718c08253b90b1143f file-debuginfo-4.21-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm b88c703de819afa0a125339e7593041e7f688c9f file-libs-4.21-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm fa743ae3b5d3ad6829b228cc61463efe347b0c33 file-devel-4.21-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 4904044807e2f3d81036fc2b5ca616b732603e4d file-4.21-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm 71aed76b7cf6136abc572e7a791de4ba87e726cc file-libs-4.21-1.fc7.ppc.rpm d5a0f85c4b927abee899614a54bd3711c68f99a8 file-debuginfo-4.21-1.fc7.ppc.rpm ede4162d6bd71b22dcecae01be22165a34daf82c file-devel-4.21-1.fc7.ppc.rpm 188473d52506dda1b0e10edc07e776907dd00fba file-4.21-1.fc7.ppc.rpm 4671a51f518e86bde129778c74a91de6176b16f0 file-4.21-1.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.