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Re: OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity

From: Steve Shockley <steve.shockley () shockley net>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:14:22 -0400

acheddamiman () gmail com wrote:

The command "file" is vulnerable to heap overflow.

Solution:

Patch the kernel source with:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.1/common/009_file.patch

By AchedDamiman


This is CVE-2007-1536, discovered by Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux.

Patches are also available for OpenBSD 4.0:
http://openbsd.org/errata40.html#015_file

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OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity acheddamiman (Aug 27)
- Re: OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity Steve Shockley (Aug 28)