CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-2799
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-05-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
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.
Affected configurations
• file file 4.2
• sleuth kit the sleuth kith
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-001.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://osvdb.org/38498 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25931 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26203 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26294 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29179 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-290.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt www.amavis.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1343 www.debian.org
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-25.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_40_file.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0391.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018140 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ www.trustix.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-439-2 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241022 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34731 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11012 oval.cisecurity.org
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-001.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://osvdb.org/38498 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25931 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26203 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26294 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29179 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-290.htm support.avaya.com
- http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt www.amavis.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1343 www.debian.org
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-25.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_40_file.html www.novell.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0391.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018140 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ www.trustix.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-439-2 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241022 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34731 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 issues.rpath.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11012 oval.cisecurity.org