The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities.

The Docker images provided with SUSE CaaS Platform 2.0 have been updated to include the following updates: binutils :

  - Update to version 2.29

  - 18750 bsc#1030296 CVE-2014-9939

  - 20891 bsc#1030585 CVE-2017-7225

  - 20892 bsc#1030588 CVE-2017-7224

  - 20898 bsc#1030589 CVE-2017-7223

  - 20905 bsc#1030584 CVE-2017-7226

  - 20908 bsc#1031644 CVE-2017-7299

  - 20909 bsc#1031656 CVE-2017-7300

  - 20921 bsc#1031595 CVE-2017-7302

  - 20922 bsc#1031593 CVE-2017-7303

  - 20924 bsc#1031638 CVE-2017-7301

  - 20931 bsc#1031590 CVE-2017-7304

  - 21135 bsc#1030298 CVE-2017-7209

  - 21137 bsc#1029909 CVE-2017-6965

  - 21139 bsc#1029908 CVE-2017-6966

  - 21156 bsc#1029907 CVE-2017-6969

  - 21157 bsc#1030297 CVE-2017-7210

  - 21409 bsc#1037052 CVE-2017-8392

  - 21412 bsc#1037057 CVE-2017-8393

  - 21414 bsc#1037061 CVE-2017-8394

  - 21432 bsc#1037066 CVE-2017-8396

  - 21440 bsc#1037273 CVE-2017-8421

  - 21580 bsc#1044891 CVE-2017-9746

  - 21581 bsc#1044897 CVE-2017-9747

  - 21582 bsc#1044901 CVE-2017-9748

  - 21587 bsc#1044909 CVE-2017-9750

  - 21594 bsc#1044925 CVE-2017-9755

  - 21595 bsc#1044927 CVE-2017-9756

  - 21787 bsc#1052518 CVE-2017-12448

  - 21813 bsc#1052503, CVE-2017-12456, bsc#1052507,     CVE-2017-12454, bsc#1052509, CVE-2017-12453,     bsc#1052511, CVE-2017-12452, bsc#1052514,     CVE-2017-12450, bsc#1052503, CVE-2017-12456,     bsc#1052507, CVE-2017-12454, bsc#1052509,     CVE-2017-12453, bsc#1052511, CVE-2017-12452,     bsc#1052514, CVE-2017-12450

  - 21933 bsc#1053347 CVE-2017-12799

  - 21990 bsc#1058480 CVE-2017-14333

  - 22018 bsc#1056312 CVE-2017-13757

  - 22047 bsc#1057144 CVE-2017-14129

  - 22058 bsc#1057149 CVE-2017-14130

  - 22059 bsc#1057139 CVE-2017-14128

  - 22113 bsc#1059050 CVE-2017-14529

  - 22148 bsc#1060599 CVE-2017-14745

  - 22163 bsc#1061241 CVE-2017-14974

  - 22170 bsc#1060621 CVE-2017-14729

  - Make compressed debug section handling explicit, disable     for old products and enable for gas on all architectures     otherwise. [bsc#1029995]

  - Remove empty rpath component removal optimization from     to workaround CMake rpath handling. [bsc#1025282]

  - Fix alignment frags for aarch64 (bsc#1003846) coreutils :

  - Fix df(1) to no longer interact with excluded file     system types, so for example specifying -x nfs no longer     hangs with problematic nfs mounts. (bsc#1026567)

  - Ensure df -l no longer interacts with dummy file system     types, so for example no longer hangs with problematic     NFS mounted via system.automount(5). (bsc#1043059)

  - Significantly speed up df(1) for huge mount lists.
    (bsc#965780) file :

  - update to version 5.22.

  - CVE-2014-9621: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a long     string. (bsc#913650)

  - CVE-2014-9620: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a large     number of notes. (bsc#913651)

  - CVE-2014-9653: readelf.c in file did not consider that     pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the     available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF     file. (bsc#917152)

  - CVE-2014-8116: The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1)     program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid     capabilities. (bsc#910253)

  - CVE-2014-8117: softmagic.c in file did not properly     limit recursion, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via     unspecified vectors. (bsc#910253)

  - Fixed a memory corruption during rpmbuild (bsc#1063269)

  - Backport of a fix for an increased printable string     length as found in file 5.30 (bsc#996511)

  - file command throws 'Composite Document File V2     Document, corrupt: Can't read SSAT' error against excel     97/2003 file format. (bsc#1009966) gcc7 :

  - Support for specific IBM Power9 processor instructions.

  - Support for specific IBM zSeries z14 processor     instructions.

  - New packages cross-npvtx-gcc7 and nvptx-tools added to     the Toolchain Module for specific NVIDIA Card offload     support. gzip :

  - fix mishandling of leading zeros in the end-of-block     code (bsc#1067891) libsolv :

  - Many fixes and improvements for cleandeps.

  - Always create dup rules for 'distupgrade' jobs.

  - Use recommends also for ordering packages.

  - Fix splitprovides handling with addalreadyrecommended     turned off. (bsc#1059065)

  - Expose solver_get_recommendations() in bindings.

  - Fix bug in solver_prune_to_highest_prio_per_name     resulting in bad output from     solver_get_recommendations().

  - Support 'without' and 'unless' dependencies.

  - Use same heuristic as upstream to determine source RPMs.

  - Fix memory leak in bindings.

  - Add pool_best_solvables() function.

  - Fix 64bit integer parsing from RPM headers.

  - Enable bzip2 and xz/lzma compression support.

  - Enable complex/rich dependencies on distributions with     RPM 4.13+. libtool :

  - Add missing dependencies and provides to baselibs.conf     to make sure libltdl libraries are properly installed.
    (bsc#1056381) libzypp :

  - Fix media handling in presence of a repo path prefix.
    (bsc#1062561)

  - Fix RepoProvideFile ignoring a repo path prefix.
    (bsc#1062561)

  - Remove unused legacy notify-message script.
    (bsc#1058783)

  - Support multiple product licenses in repomd.
    (fate#322276)

  - Propagate 'rpm --import' errors. (bsc#1057188)

  - Fix typos in zypp.conf. openssl :

  - CVE-2017-3735: openssl1,openssl: Malformed X.509     IPAdressFamily could cause OOB read (bsc#1056058)

  - CVE-2017-3736: openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on     x86_64 (bsc#1066242)

  - Out of bounds read+crash in DES_fcrypt (bsc#1065363)

  - openssl DEFAULT_SUSE cipher list is missing ECDHE-ECDSA     ciphers (bsc#1055825) perl: Security issues for perl :

  - CVE-2017-12837: Heap-based buffer overflow in the     S_regatom function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before     5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write) via a regular expression with a escape and the     case-insensitive modifier. (bnc#1057724)

  - CVE-2017-12883: Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N     function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and     5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to     disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of     service (application crash) via a crafted regular     expression with an invalid escape. (bnc#1057721)

  - CVE-2017-6512: Race condition in the rmtree and     remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before     2.13 for Perl allows attackers to set the mode on     arbitrary files via vectors involving     directory-permission loosening logic. (bnc#1047178) Bug     fixes for perl :

  - backport set_capture_string changes from upstream     (bsc#999735)

  - reformat baselibs.conf as source validator workaround     systemd :

  - unit: When JobTimeoutSec= is turned off, implicitly turn     off JobRunningTimeoutSec= too. (bsc#1048605,     bsc#1004995)

  - compat-rules: Generate compat by-id symlinks with 'nvme'     prefix missing and warn users that have broken symlinks.
    (bsc#1063249)

  - compat-rules: Allow to specify the generation number     through the kernel command line.

  - scsi_id: Fixup prefix for pre-SPC inquiry reply.
    (bsc#1039099)

  - tmpfiles: Remove old ICE and X11 sockets at boot.

  - tmpfiles: Silently ignore any path that passes through     autofs. (bsc#1045472)

  - pam_logind: Skip leading /dev/ from PAM_TTY field before     passing it on.

  - shared/machine-pool: Fix another mkfs.btrfs checking.
    (bsc#1053595)

  - shutdown: Fix incorrect fscanf() result check.

  - shutdown: Don't remount,ro network filesystems.
    (bsc#1035386)

  - shutdown: Don't be fooled when detaching DM devices with     BTRFS. (bsc#1055641)

  - bash-completion: Add support for --now. (bsc#1053137)

  - Add convert-lib-udev-path.sh script to convert /lib/udev     directory into a symlink pointing to /usr/lib/udev when     upgrading from SLE11. (bsc#1050152)

  - Add a rule to teach hotplug to offline containers     transparently. (bsc#1040800) timezone :

  - Northern Cyprus switches from +03 to +02/+03 on     2017-10-29

  - Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21

  - Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01

  - Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01

  - Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05

  - Turks and Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on     2018-11-04

  - Corrections to past DST transitions

  - Move oversized Canada/East-Saskatchewan to 'backward'     file

  - zic(8) and the reference runtime now reject multiple     leap seconds within 28 days of each other, or leap     seconds before the Epoch. util-linux :

  - Allow unmounting of filesystems without calling stat()     on the mount point, when '-c' is used. (bsc#1040968)

  - Fix an infinite loop, a crash and report the correct     minimum and maximum frequencies in lscpu for some     processors. (bsc#1055446)

  - Fix a lscpu failure on Sydney Amazon EC2 region.
    (bsc#1066500)

  - If multiple subvolumes are mounted, report the default     subvolume. (bsc#1039276) velum :

  - Fix logout issue on DEX download page * page doesn't     exist (bsc#1066611)

  - Handle invalid sessions more user friendly

  - Fix undesired minimum nodes alert blink (bsc#1066371)     wicked :

  - A regression in wicked was causing the hostname not to     be set correctly via DHCP in some cases     (bsc#1057007,bsc#1050258)

  - Configure the interface MTU correctly even in cases     where the interface was up already (bsc#1059292)

  - Don't abort the process that adds configures routes if     one route fails (bsc#1036619)

  - Handle DHCP4 user-class ids properly (bsc#1045522)

  - ethtool: handle channels parameters (bsc#1043883) zypper :

  - Locale: Fix possible segmentation fault. (bsc#1064999)

  - Add summary hint if product is better updated by a     different command. This is mainly used by rolling     distributions like openSUSE Tumbleweed to remind their     users to use 'zypper dup' to update (not zypper up or     patch). (bsc#1061384)

  - Unify '(add|modify)(repo|service)' property related     arguments.

  - Fixed 'add' commands supporting to set only a subset of     properties.

  - Introduced '-f/-F' as preferred short option for
    --[no-]refresh in all four commands. (bsc#661410,     bsc#1053671)

  - Fix missing package names in installation report.
    (bsc#1058695)

  - Differ between unsupported and packages with unknown     support status. (bsc#1057634)

  - Return error code '107' if an RPM's %post configuration     script fails, but only if ZYPPER_ON_CODE12_RETURN_107=1     is set in the environment. (bsc#1047233)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The GNU file utility was updated to version 5.22. Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2014-9621: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a long     string. (bsc#913650)

  - CVE-2014-9620: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a large     number of notes. (bsc#913651)

  - CVE-2014-9653: readelf.c in file did not consider that     pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the     available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF     file. (bsc#917152)

  - CVE-2014-8116: The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1)     program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid     capabilities. (bsc#910253)

  - CVE-2014-8117: softmagic.c in file did not properly     limit recursion, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via     unspecified vectors. (bsc#910253) Version update to file     version 5.22

  - add indirect relative for TIFF/Exif

  - restructure elf note printing to avoid repeated messages

  - add note limit, suggested by Alexander Cherepanov

  - Bail out on partial pread()'s (Alexander Cherepanov)

  - Fix incorrect bounds check in file_printable (Alexander     Cherepanov)

  - PR/405: ignore SIGPIPE from uncompress programs

  - change printable -> file_printable and use it in more     places for safety

  - in ELF, instead of '(uses dynamic libraries)' when     PT_INTERP is present print the interpreter name. Version     update to file version 5.21

  - there was an incorrect free in magic_load_buffers()

  - there was an out of bounds read for some pascal strings

  - there was a memory leak in magic lists

  - don't interpret strings printed from files using the     current locale, convert them to ascii format first.

  - there was an out of bounds read in elf note reads Update     to file version 5.20

  - recognize encrypted CDF documents

  - add magic_load_buffers from Brooks Davis

  - add thumbs.db support

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The GNU file utility was updated to version 5.22.

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2014-9621: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a long     string. (bsc#913650)

  - CVE-2014-9620: The ELF parser in file allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service via a large     number of notes. (bsc#913651)

  - CVE-2014-9653: readelf.c in file did not consider that     pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the     available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF     file. (bsc#917152)

  - CVE-2014-8116: The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1)     program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid     capabilities. (bsc#910253)

  - CVE-2014-8117: softmagic.c in file did not properly     limit recursion, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via     unspecified vectors. (bsc#910253)

Version update to file version 5.22

  - add indirect relative for TIFF/Exif

  - restructure elf note printing to avoid repeated messages

  - add note limit, suggested by Alexander Cherepanov

  - Bail out on partial pread()'s (Alexander Cherepanov)

  - Fix incorrect bounds check in file_printable (Alexander     Cherepanov)

  - PR/405: ignore SIGPIPE from uncompress programs

  - change printable -> file_printable and use it in more     places for safety

  - in ELF, instead of '(uses dynamic libraries)' when     PT_INTERP is present print the interpreter name.

Version update to file version 5.21

  - there was an incorrect free in magic_load_buffers()

  - there was an out of bounds read for some pascal strings

  - there was a memory leak in magic lists

  - don't interpret strings printed from files using the     current locale, convert them to ascii format first.

  - there was an out of bounds read in elf note reads

Update to file version 5.20

  - recognize encrypted CDF documents

  - add magic_load_buffers from Brooks Davis

  - add thumbs.db support

Additional non-security bug fixes :

  - Fixed a memory corruption during rpmbuild (bsc#1063269)

  - Backport of a fix for an increased printable string     length as found in file 5.30 (bsc#996511)

  - file command throws 'Composite Document File V2     Document, corrupt: Can't read SSAT' error against excel     97/2003 file format. (bsc#1009966)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

CVE-2014-8116 The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities.

CVE-2014-8117 softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.

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)

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.

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 Kaluza (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.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - fix CVE-2014-3538 (unrestricted regular expression     matching)

  - fix #1284826 - try to read ELF header to detect     corrupted one

  - fix #1263987 - fix bugs found by coverity in the patch

  - fix CVE-2014-3587 (incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571)

  - fix CVE-2014-3710 (out-of-bounds read in elf note     headers)

  - fix CVE-2014-8116 (multiple DoS issues (resource     consumption))

  - fix CVE-2014-8117 (denial of service issue (resource     consumption))

  - fix CVE-2014-9620 (limit the number of ELF notes     processed)

  - fix CVE-2014-9653 (malformed elf file causes access to     uninitialized memory)

  - fix #809898 - add support for detection of Python 2.7     byte-compiled files

  - fix #1263987 - fix coredump execfn detection on ppc64     and s390

  - fix #966953 - include msooxml file in magic.mgc     generation

  - fix #966953 - increate the strength of MSOOXML magic     patterns

  - fix #1169509 - add support for Java 1.7 and 1.8

  - fix #1243650 - comment out too-sensitive Pascal magic

  - fix #1080453 - remove .orig files from magic directory

  - fix #1161058 - add support for EPUB

  - fix #1162149 - remove parts of patches patching .orig     files

  - fix #1154802 - fix detection of zip files containing     file named mime

  - fix #1246073 - fix detection UTF8 and UTF16 encoded XML     files

  - fix #1263987 - add new execfn to coredump output to show     the real name of executable which generated the coredump

  - fix #809898 - add support for detection of Python     3.2-3.5 byte-compiled files

  - fix #966953 - backport support for MSOOXML

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:0760 :

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.

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 Kaluza (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.

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way file parsed certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to crash file, or an application using file, via a specially crafted CDF file. (CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3587)

Two flaws were found in the way file processed certain Pascal strings.
A remote attacker could cause file to crash if it was used to identify the type of the attacker-supplied file. (CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-9652)

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)

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-2014-9653)

The file packages have been updated to ensure correct operation on Power little endian and ARM 64-bit hardware architectures.

Updated file packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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.

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way file parsed certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to crash file, or an application using file, via a specially crafted CDF file. (CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3587)

Two flaws were found in the way file processed certain Pascal strings.
A remote attacker could cause file to crash if it was used to identify the type of the attacker-supplied file. (CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-9652)

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)

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-2014-9653)

Red Hat would like to thank Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG for reporting the CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117 issues. The CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3710 issues were discovered by Francisco Alonso of Red Hat Product Security; the CVE-2014-3538 issue was discovered by Jan Kaluza of the Red Hat Web Stack Team

The file packages have been updated to ensure correct operation on Power little endian and ARM 64-bit hardware architectures.
(BZ#1224667, BZ#1224668, BZ#1157850, BZ#1067688).

All file users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2015:2155 :

Updated file packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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.

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way file parsed certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to crash file, or an application using file, via a specially crafted CDF file. (CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3587)

Two flaws were found in the way file processed certain Pascal strings.
A remote attacker could cause file to crash if it was used to identify the type of the attacker-supplied file. (CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-9652)

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)

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-2014-9653)

Red Hat would like to thank Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG for reporting the CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117 issues. The CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3710 issues were discovered by Francisco Alonso of Red Hat Product Security; the CVE-2014-3538 issue was discovered by Jan Kaluza of the Red Hat Web Stack Team

The file packages have been updated to ensure correct operation on Power little endian and ARM 64-bit hardware architectures.
(BZ#1224667, BZ#1224668, BZ#1157850, BZ#1067688).

All file users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

This file update fixes the following security issues :

  - bsc#910252: multiple denial of service issues (resource     consumption) (CVE-2014-8116)

  - bsc#910253: denial of service issue (resource     consumption) (CVE-2014-8117)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in php :

It was discovered that the file utility contains a flaw in the handling of indirect magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files (CVE-2014-1943).

A flaw was found in the way the file utility determined the type of Portable Executable (PE) format files, the executable format used on Windows. A malicious PE file could cause the file utility to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2014-2270).

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters (CVE-2013-7345).

PHP FPM in PHP versions before 5.4.28 and 5.5.12 uses a UNIX domain socket with world-writable permissions by default, which allows any local user to connect to it and execute PHP scripts as the apache user (CVE-2014-0185).

A flaw was found in the way file's Composite Document Files (CDF) format parser handle CDF files with many summary info entries. The cdf_unpack_summary_info() function unnecessarily repeatedly read the info from the same offset. This led to many file_printf() calls in cdf_file_property_info(), which caused file to use an excessive amount of CPU time when parsing a specially crafted CDF file (CVE-2014-0237).

A flaw was found in the way file parsed property information from Composite Document Files (CDF) files. A property entry with 0 elements triggers an infinite loop (CVE-2014-0238).

The unserialize() function in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.14 has a Type Confusion issue related to the SPL ArrayObject and SPLObjectStorage Types (CVE-2014-3515).

It was discovered that PHP is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the DNS TXT record parsing. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the PHP interpreter if a PHP application uses dns_get_record() to perform a DNS query (CVE-2014-4049).

A flaw was found in the way file parsed property information from Composite Document Files (CDF) files, where the mconvert() function did not correctly compute the truncated pascal string size (CVE-2014-3478).

Multiple flaws were found in the way file parsed property information from Composite Document Files (CDF) files, due to insufficient boundary checks on buffers (CVE-2014-0207, CVE-2014-3479, CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487).

The phpinfo() function in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.14 has a Type Confusion issue that can cause it to leak arbitrary process memory (CVE-2014-4721).

Use-after-free vulnerability in ext/spl/spl_array.c in the SPL component in PHP through 5.5.14 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted ArrayIterator usage within applications in certain web-hosting environments (CVE-2014-4698).

Use-after-free vulnerability in ext/spl/spl_dllist.c in the SPL component in PHP through 5.5.14 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted iterator usage within applications in certain web-hosting environments (CVE-2014-4670).

file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345 (CVE-2014-3538).

Integer overflow in the cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in file through 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.32 and 5.5.x before 5.5.16, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted CDF file. NOTE:
this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 (CVE-2014-3587).

Multiple buffer overflows in the php_parserr function in ext/standard/dns.c in PHP before 5.4.32 and 5.5.x before 5.5.16 allow remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS record, related to the dns_get_record function and the dn_expand function. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 (CVE-2014-3597).

An integer overflow flaw in PHP's unserialize() function was reported.
If unserialize() were used on untrusted data, this issue could lead to a crash or potentially information disclosure (CVE-2014-3669).

A heap corruption issue was reported in PHP's exif_thumbnail() function. A specially crafted JPEG image could cause the PHP interpreter to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2014-3670).

If client-supplied input was passed to PHP's cURL client as a URL to download, it could return local files from the server due to improper handling of null bytes (PHP#68089).

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in file's donote() function in the way the file utility determined the note headers of a elf file.
This could possibly lead to file executable crash (CVE-2014-3710).

A use-after-free flaw was found in PHP unserialize(). An untrusted input could cause PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when processed using unserialize() (CVE-2014-8142).

Double free vulnerability in the zend_ts_hash_graceful_destroy function in zend_ts_hash.c in the Zend Engine in PHP before 5.5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors (CVE-2014-9425).

sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in the CGI component in PHP before 5.5.21, when mmap is used to read a .php file, does not properly consider the mapping's length during processing of an invalid file that begins with a # character and lacks a newline character, which causes an out-of-bounds read and might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from php-cgi process memory by leveraging the ability to upload a .php file or trigger unexpected code execution if a valid PHP script is present in memory locations adjacent to the mapping (CVE-2014-9427).

Use after free vulnerability in unserialize() in PHP before 5.5.21 (CVE-2015-0231).

Free called on an uninitialized pointer in php-exif in PHP before 5.5.21 (CVE-2015-0232).

The readelf.c source file has been removed from PHP's bundled copy of file's libmagic, eliminating exposure to denial of service issues in ELF file parsing such as CVE-2014-8116, CVE-2014-8117, CVE-2014-9620 and CVE-2014-9621 in PHP's fileinfo module.

S. Paraschoudis discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory in the enchant binding. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2014-9705).

Taoguang Chen discovered that PHP incorrectly handled unserializing objects. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2015-0273).

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory in the phar extension. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2015-2301).

Use-after-free vulnerability in the process_nested_data function in ext/standard/var_unserializer.re in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted unserialize call that leverages improper handling of duplicate numerical keys within the serialized properties of an object. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8142 (CVE-2015-0231).

The exif_process_unicode function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer free and application crash) via crafted EXIF data in a JPEG image (CVE-2015-0232).

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way libzip, which is embedded in PHP, processed certain ZIP archives. If an attacker were able to supply a specially crafted ZIP archive to an application using libzip, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2015-2331).

It was discovered that the PHP opcache component incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2015-1351).

It was discovered that the PHP PostgreSQL database extension incorrectly handled certain pointers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2015-1352).

PHP contains a bundled copy of the file utility's libmagic library, so it was vulnerable to the libmagic issues.

The updated php packages have been patched and upgraded to the 5.5.23 version which is not vulnerable to these issues. The libzip packages has been patched to address the CVE-2015-2331 flaw.

A bug in the php zip extension that could cause a crash has been fixed (mga#13820)

Additionally the jsonc and timezonedb packages has been upgraded to the latest versions and the PECL packages which requires so has been rebuilt for php-5.5.23.

Multiple security issues have been found in file, a tool/library to determine a file type. Processing a malformed file could result in denial of service. Most of the changes are related to parsing ELF files.

As part of the fixes, several limits on aspects of the detection were added or tightened, sometimes resulting in messages like 'recursion limit exceeded' or 'too many program header sections'.

To mitigate such shortcomings, these limits are controllable by a new '-R'/'--recursion' parameter in the file program. Note: A future upgrade for file in squeeze-lts might replace this with the '-P' parameter to keep usage consistent across all distributions.

CVE-2014-8116

The ELF parser (readelf.c) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash).

CVE-2014-8117

softmagic.c does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash).

(no identifier has been assigned so far)

out-of-bounds memory access

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes. (CVE-2014-9620)

The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities. (CVE-2014-8116)

It was reported that a malformed elf file can cause file urility to access invalid memory. (CVE-2014-9653)

The ELF parser in file 5.16 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string. (CVE-2014-9621)

softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2014-8117)

Update to File-5.22. Fixes various CVE bugs.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Francisco Alonso discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3710)

Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly handled certain ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8116)

Thomas Jarosch discovered that file incorrectly limited recursion. An attacker could use this issue to cause file to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-8117).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities :

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using the file command on a specially crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption (CVE-2014-8116).

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported that using the file command on a specially crafted ELF binary could lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled recursion (CVE-2014-8117).

The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes (CVE-2014-9620).

The ELF parser in file 5.16 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string (CVE-2014-9621).

The updated file packages has been upgraded to the latest 5.22 version which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Multiple security issues have been found in file, a tool/library to determine a file type. Processing a malformed file could result in denial of service. Most of the changes are related to parsing ELF files.

As part of the fixes, several limits on aspects of the detection were added or tightened, sometimes resulting in messages like 'recursion limit exceeded' or 'too many program header sections'.

To mitigate such shortcomings, these limits are controllable by a new
- -P, --parameter option in the file program.

RedHat reports :

Thomas Jarosch of Intra2net AG reported a number of denial of service issues (resource consumption) in the ELF parser used by file(1). These issues were fixed in the 5.21 release of file(1), but by mistake are missing from the changelog.

This file update fixes the following two security issues :

  - bsc#910252: multiple denial of service issues (resource     consumption) (CVE-2014-8116)

  - bsc#910253: denial of service issue (resource     consumption) (CVE-2014-8117)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
106092	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : CaaS Platform 2.0 images (SUSE-SU-2018:0053-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
104777	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : file (SUSE-SU-2017:3048-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
104764	openSUSE Security Update : file (openSUSE-2017-1298)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
97420	F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux file utility vulnerabilities (K16347)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	medium
91537	Scientific Linux Security Update : file on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160510)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
91167	CentOS 6 : file (CESA-2016:0760)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
91155	OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : file (OVMSA-2016-0050)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	high
91149	Oracle Linux 6 : file (ELSA-2016-0760)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
91074	RHEL 6 : file (RHSA-2016:0760)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
87555	Scientific Linux Security Update : file on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
87137	CentOS 7 : file (CESA-2015:2155)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
87027	Oracle Linux 7 : file (ELSA-2015-2155)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
86973	RHEL 7 : file (RHSA-2015:2155)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
83657	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : file (SUSE-SU-2014:1730-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
82333	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2015:080)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
82114	Debian DLA-131-1 : file security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
82046	Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2015-497)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
81394	Fedora 21 : file-5.22-2.fc21 (2015-2020)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
81178	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : file vulnerabilities (USN-2494-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
80429	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : file (MDVSA-2015:010)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
80420	Debian DSA-3121-1 : file - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
80351	FreeBSD : file -- multiple vulnerabilities (9575259a-92d5-11e4-bce6-d050992ecde8)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
80277	openSUSE Security Update : file (openSUSE-SU-2014:1720-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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