[RHSA-2016:0760-01] Moderate: file security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Moderate: file security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0760-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html

Issue date: 2016-05-10

CVE Names: CVE-2014-3538 CVE-2014-3587 CVE-2014-3710

CVE-2014-8116 CVE-2014-8117 CVE-2014-9620

CVE-2014-9653

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1. Summary:

 

An update for file is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

the CVE link(s) in the References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the

type of data the file contains. It can identify many different file types,

including Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) binary files, system

libraries, RPM packages, and different graphics formats.

 

Security Fix(es):

 

* Multiple flaws were found in the file regular expression rules for

detecting various files. A remote attacker could use these flaws to cause

file to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2014-3538)

 

* A denial of service flaw was found in the way file parsed certain

Composite Document Format (CDF) files. A remote attacker could use this

flaw to crash file via a specially crafted CDF file. (CVE-2014-3587)

 

* Multiple flaws were found in the way file parsed Executable and Linkable

Format (ELF) files. A remote attacker could use these flaws to cause file

to crash, disclose portions of its memory, or consume an excessive amount

of system resources. (CVE-2014-3710, CVE-2014-8116, CVE-2014-8117,

CVE-2014-9620, CVE-2014-9653)

 

Red Hat would like to thank Thomas Jarosch (Intra2net AG) for reporting

CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117. The CVE-2014-3538 issue was discovered by

Jan Kaluža (Red Hat Web Stack Team) and the CVE-2014-3710 issue was

discovered by Francisco Alonso (Red Hat Product Security).

 

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 6.8 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8

Technical Notes linked from the References section.

 

4. Solution:

 

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes

described in this advisory, refer to:

 

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

809898 - RFE: add detection of Python bytecode for recent versions of Python

1080453 - file: incorrectly applied magic/Magdir patch [rhel-6]

1098222 - CVE-2014-3538 file: unrestricted regular expression matching

1128587 - CVE-2014-3587 file: incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in cdf_read_property_info

1154802 - file reports "data" instead of zip file when the first file zipped is a file named "mime"

1155071 - CVE-2014-3710 file: out-of-bounds read in elf note headers

1169509 - file: report full java version for 1.7 and 1.8 class files

1171580 - CVE-2014-8116 file: multiple denial of service issues (resource consumption)

1174606 - CVE-2014-8117 file: denial of service issue (resource consumption)

1180639 - CVE-2014-9620 file: limit the number of ELF notes processed

1190116 - CVE-2014-9653 file: malformed elf file causes access to uninitialized memory

1243650 - If we execute the file command against /var/log/messages then we see "/var/log/messages: ASCII Pascal program text" ?

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

 

Source:

file-5.04-30.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

file-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

file-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):

 

i386:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):

 

Source:

file-5.04-30.el6.src.rpm

 

x86_64:

file-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):

 

x86_64:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):

 

Source:

file-5.04-30.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

file-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

file-5.04-30.el6.ppc64.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.ppc.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.ppc64.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.ppc.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.ppc64.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.ppc.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.ppc64.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

file-5.04-30.el6.s390x.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.s390.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.s390x.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.s390.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.s390x.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.s390.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.s390x.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

file-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):

 

i386:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.ppc64.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.s390x.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

 

Source:

file-5.04-30.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

file-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

file-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-devel-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-libs-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

python-magic-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6):

 

i386:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

file-debuginfo-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

file-static-5.04-30.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

 

7. References:

 

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3538

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3587

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3710

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8116

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8117

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9620

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9653

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.8_Release_Notes/index.html

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.8_Technical_Notes/index.html

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

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