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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-13571
2014-10-27 02:21:35
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Name : file
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 5.19
Release : 7.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:

Security fix for CVE-2014-3710
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Oct 23 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.19-7
– fix #1155464 – fix for CVE-2014-3710
* Wed Sep 3 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.19-6
– fix #1134580 – detect Mach-O universal binary
* Wed Sep 3 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.19-5
– fix #1101404 – remove weak Pascal patterns
– fix #1107995 – detect locale-archive
– fix #1130693, #1115111 – fix detection of MSOOXML, OOXML and ZIP
– fix #1124940 – detect Python 3.4 byte-compiled files
* Fri Aug 22 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.19-4
– fix #1132787 – CVE-2014-3587
* Sat Aug 16 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> – 5.19-3
– Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jul 12 2014 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> – 5.19-2
– fix license handling
* Wed Jun 25 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.19-1
– fix #1011789 – update to version 5.19
* Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> – 5.14-22
– Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue May 27 2014 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> – 5.14-21
– Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3.4
* Tue Mar 25 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-20
– fix #1079847 – fix potential regression in Perl detection caused
by original patch for CVE-2013-7345
* Mon Mar 24 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-19
– fix redefinition of OFFSET_OOB in CVE-2014-2270 patch
* Mon Mar 24 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-18
– fix #1079847 – fix for CVE-2013-7345
– fix #1080450 – remove *.orig files before compiling magic/Magdir
* Fri Mar 7 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-17
– fix #1073555 – fix for CVE-2014-2270
* Tue Feb 25 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> – 5.14-16
– fix potential memory leak introduced in previous commit
* 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 #1155071 – CVE-2014-3710 file: out-of-bounds read in elf note headers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155071
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