[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: file-4.21-1.fc5

Martin Bacovsky mbacovsk at redhat.com
Mon Jun 11 20:01:12 UTC 2007


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-541
2007-06-11
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : file
Version     : 4.21
Release     : 1.fc5
Summary     : A utility for determining file types.
Description :
The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the
type of data contained by the file.  File can identify many different
file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and
different graphics formats.

You should install the file package, since the file command is such a
useful utility.

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Update Information:

This update should provide latest upstream version (4.21)
and should contain fix for CVE-2007-2799.
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* Mon May 28 2007 Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk at redhat.com> - 4.21-1
- upgrade to new upstream 4.21
- resolves: #241034: CVE-2007-2799 file integer overflow

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/

945c3fb4429d73a44835007fc9abd2f782cbf285  SRPMS/file-4.21-1.fc5.src.rpm
945c3fb4429d73a44835007fc9abd2f782cbf285  noarch/file-4.21-1.fc5.src.rpm
0615b8f0fb8578daf832829f65ecdd851806fb6d  ppc/debug/file-debuginfo-4.21-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
d9064b673a4f44df3aab46cad6fc7e5875ea5d44  ppc/file-4.21-1.fc5.ppc.rpm
fb31c4a9eb2c5dc514f07ba6c39127bfc4e842ac  x86_64/file-4.21-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
60299e040f9581fbee26b4ec3c16c3c20af3e861  x86_64/debug/file-debuginfo-4.21-1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
99d080b97df277f51e285857c6e4033c40a0adc6  i386/debug/file-debuginfo-4.21-1.fc5.i386.rpm
789429cef0bdf6940ea3ec3cfde1b9eedf9187ef  i386/file-4.21-1.fc5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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