oss-security - CVE request: file security issue

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Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:24:36 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: file security issue

A debian bug report indicates a vulnerability in file 5.x (4.x is not
affected) due to a boundary error within cdf_read_sat().

References:

http://secunia.com/advisories/34881/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525820
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497913

Steve, could we get a CVE name assigned to this issue please?  Thanks.

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team

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