On Mon, October 15, 2007 11:57 am, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> 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?

Matthew,

I don't, I didn't realize it might be 'back fixed'
I just checked '--version'

> 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.

Centos 4 and RH73

> 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.

thanks, Matthew

so where do I identify changelog /url for RH73 'file' ?


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Voytek

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