Package: file
Version: 5.11-2+deb7u2
Severity: normal
The recent security update in wheezy introduced a regression in the
recognition of some Perl scripts. Technically, this update backported
an upstream regression so this is an issue in both wheezy (5.11) and
jessie (5.17).
Reproducer:
printf '#!/usr/bin/perl\nBEGIN{' | file -b -
Expected (as seen in squeeze), something like:
| a /usr/bin/perl script text executable
Seen:
| awk script, ASCII text
Appearently affected by this is FAI, as seen in the FAI mailing list,
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Christoph
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