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OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity Aug 25 2007 08:18PM
acheddamiman gmail com (1 replies)
Re: OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity Aug 28 2007 06:14PM
Steve Shockley (steve shockley shockley net)
acheddamiman (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] 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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