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A file security update is available for Fedora 29



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-18036b898e
2019-11-10 01:06:02.434237
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Name : file
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 5.34
Release : 15.fc29
URL : http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
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.

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Update Information:

- fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct 25 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-15 - fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)
* Tue Jun 11 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-14 - fix double free on read error (#1685217)
* Fri Mar 1 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-13 - improve support for Apple formats (#1679455)
* Mon Feb 25 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-12 - remote denial of service in do_core_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8907) - stack-based buffer over-read in do_core_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8905) - stack-based buffer over-read in do_bid_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8904) - out-of-bounds read in do_core_note in readelf.c (CVE-2019-8906) * Thu Jan 24 2019 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-9 - Added Linux PowerPC core offsets for Linux + fixed bug #1161911 * Thu Jan 24 2019 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-8 - Fixed bug missidentifying netpbm files (#856092)
* Tue Dec 4 2018 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-7 - Fixed bug misleading qcow2 v2 and v3 files (#1654349)
- Changed bug report URL
* Wed Nov 21 2018 Ondrej Dubaj - 5.34-6 - Fixed missidentifying locale files bug (#1527398)
* Wed Nov 14 2018 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-5
- reintroduce the python2-magic subpackage needed by python2-bugzilla (#1649547)
* Mon Nov 12 2018 Kamil Dudka - 5.34-4
- add magic for eBPF objects (#1648667)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1765273 - CVE-2019-18218 file: heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765273 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-18036b898e' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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