Bug#641012: misidentifies hungarian text as dos executables

[Tamas Tobi]

Hi Daniel,

I tried with your new  version: file_5.08-1_amd64.deb 
(http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/file/file_5.08-1_amd64.deb) it has 
not work yet.
Seems that this package contains the 5.08 and not 5.08-1 version.
This is the output:
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root@office-kvm001:/usr/local/bin# ./file -v
file-5.08
magic file from /etc/magic:/usr/share/misc/magic
root@office-kvm001:/usr/local/bin# ./file  
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20110915/4596F25325.ACD0F/msg-20365-76.txt
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20110915/4596F25325.ACD0F/msg-20365-76.txt: 
DOS executable (COM)
root@office-kvm001:/usr/local/bin# head 
/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20110915/4596F25325.ACD0F/msg-20365-76.txt
?n is az interneten n?zem ?s nem szaggat, de most rontottam a min?s?get a
folyamatoss?g rem?ny?ben


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Reagrds,
Tamas


retitle 641012 misidentifies hungarian text as dos executables
severity 641012 normal
thanks

Hi,

could you please retry with current file (5.08-1). if you can, it would
be nice if you could send a test file to the bug.

Regards,
Daniel

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Bug#641012: base: /usr/bin/file command identifies incorrectly as a DOS executable (COM) starting with 0xE9.

[Tamas Tobi]

Package: base
Severity: important

I found that the mailscanner package identifies and blocking incorrectly the 
TXT or HTML attachments starting with 0xE9 (Hungarian é) character due to the 
file command says it is a DOS executable.
Because of this bug, the mailscanner blocking some importnat mails which are 
clean. I found on other systems (Ubuntu 10.04) the same behavoiur.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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