National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2026

Overview

The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/07/2007)

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of file as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217

Hyperlink:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174217

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070524 FLEA-2007-0022-1: file

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user

Hyperlink:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=755AF709E5B77E6EA58479D5%40foxx.lsit.ucsb.edu&forum_name=amavis-user

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311

External Source: BID

Name: 24146

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2007:114

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200704-13

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200704-13.xml

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2071

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2071

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25578

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25578

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25544

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25544

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25394

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25394

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24918

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24918