On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:31:39AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I saw on the amavis list that my present file had vulnerability, so I


How do you know that for sure?



e.g. the vulnerabilities list says that 4.10 has a vulnerability,
but many (most? all?) distros backport security fixes to older versions
and then re-release.

You haven't mentioned what distro or version you're using
so I am going to guess Centos4 going from your past posts.

So let's have a look at the changelog of the latest rpm:

  wget 
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/file-4.10-3.0.2.el4.i386.rpm

  rpm -q --changelog -p file-4.10-3.0.2.el4.i386.rpm |less


As expected, it does have security fixes backported, namely 
    CVE-2007-2799 file integer overflow
    CVE-2007-1536 heap overflow


And checking with the latest versions of file from fedora6 and fedora7
we see that exactly the same two vulnerabilities are fixed there too.

So I _strongly_ suspect that all you have to do is 'yum update'
and you're fixed, if you're not already.


Matt





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