Name : file Product : Fedora 20 Version : 5.19 Release : 1.fc20 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.
Security update to new File version 5.19 fixing 8 CVEs found in previous two months. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ChangeLog:
* Wed Jun 25 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.19-1 - fix #1011789 - update to version 5.19 * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 5.14-22 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild * Tue May 27 2014 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> - 5.14-21 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3.4 * Tue Mar 25 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-20 - fix #1079847 - fix potential regression in Perl detection caused by original patch for CVE-2013-7345 * Mon Mar 24 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-19 - fix redefinition of OFFSET_OOB in CVE-2014-2270 patch * Mon Mar 24 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-18 - fix #1079847 - fix for CVE-2013-7345 - fix #1080450 - remove *.orig files before compiling magic/Magdir * Fri Mar 7 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-17 - fix #1073555 - fix for CVE-2014-2270 * Tue Feb 25 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-16 - fix potential memory leak introduced in previous commit * Tue Feb 18 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-15 - fix #1065837 - fix for CVE-2014-1943 * Wed Jan 15 2014 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-14 - fix #1051598 - reverse the order of shebang vs. package keyword detection in Perl by increasing strength of all Perl patterns * Mon Sep 9 2013 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@redhat.com> - 5.14-13 - fix #1001689 - fix segfault when calling magic_load twice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - References:
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update file' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.