Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux discovered an integer underflow in the file_printf() function in file prior to 4.20 that allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Updated packages have been patched to address this issue.
Affected
file on Mandriva Linux 2006.0,
Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-1536 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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