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.
Published: 2007-05-23
Score: 5.1 Medium
EPSS: 3.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1343-1 New file packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1343-2 New file packages fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-2791 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-439-2 file vulnerability
References
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ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-001.txt.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/38498 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25394 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25544 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25578 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25931 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26203 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26294 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29179 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-290.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1343 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-25.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:114 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_40_file.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0391.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469520/30/6420/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24146 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018140 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-439-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2071 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241022 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34731 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2799 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11012 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-2799 cve-icon
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File File
Redhat Enterprise Linux
Sleuth Kit The Sleuth Kith
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:49:57.399Z

Reserved: 2007-05-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-2799

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-05-23T21:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-2799

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-05-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-2799 - Bugzilla

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