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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-2739
2014-02-20 00:08:38
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Name : file
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 5.14
Release : 15.fc20
URL : http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
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.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2014-1943.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 18 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-15
– fix #1065837 – fix for CVE-2014-1943
* Wed Jan 15 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-14
– fix #1051598 – reverse the order of shebang vs. package keyword detection
in Perl by increasing strength of all Perl patterns
* Mon Sep 9 2013 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-13
– fix #1001689 – fix segfault when calling magic_load twice
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1065836 – CVE-2014-1943 file: infinite recursion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065836
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This update can be installed with the “yum” update program. Use
su -c ‘yum update file’ at the command line.
For more information, refer to “Managing Software with yum”,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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