USN-3686-1

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USN-3686-1

Summary: file vulnerabilities

Details: Alexander Cherepanov discovered that file incorrectly handled a large number of notes. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9620) Alexander Cherepanov discovered that file incorrectly handled certain long strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9621) Alexander Cherepanov discovered that file incorrectly handled certain malformed ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9653) It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain magic files. An attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted magic file to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8865) It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain malformed ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-10360)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3686-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9620, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9621, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9653, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8865, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10360