Debian: 2861-1: file: denial of service

Posted by Ridcully on Feb 18, 2014 4:25 AM EDT
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It was discovered that file, a file type classification tool, contains a flaw in the handling of "indirect" magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files.

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