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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-204-1 file -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Apr 2015

Affected Packages:

file

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 777585.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9653.

More information:

This update fixes the following issue in the file package:

• CVE-2014-9653

  readelf.c does 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.