Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-051 - It was discovered that file before 5.17 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. Additionally, other well-crafted files might result in long computation times and overlong results. A flaw was found in the way the file utility determined the type of Portable Executable format files, the executable format used on Windows. A malicious PE file could cause the file utility to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. A memory leak in file has also been fixed. The affected packages have been upgraded to the 5.12 version and patched to correct these flaws.
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