CVE-2007-2799 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the \file\ program 4.20 when running on 32-bit systems as used in products including The Sleuth Kit might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large file that triggers an overflow that bypasses an assert() statement. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-1536.

Reference

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-001.txt.asc http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/38498 http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 http://secunia.com/advisories/25931 http://secunia.com/advisories/26203 http://secunia.com/advisories/26294 http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 http://secunia.com/advisories/29179 http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-290.htm http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1343 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-25.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_40_file.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0391.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018140 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-439-2 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241022 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34731 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11012