A vulnerability has been identified in File, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to an integer underflow error in the "file_printf()" function, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable machine by tricking a user or an automated system to test a specially crafted file [...]
Affected Products
file versions 4.x
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux and Colin Percival.
ChangeLog
2007-03-21 : Initial release
2007-05-23 : Updated Description
2007-05-25 : Updated Solution
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