ubuntu · CVE-2007-2799

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Priority: medium Published: 2007-05-23 21:30:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:41:27 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-2799 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (file), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Integer overflow in the "file" program 4.20, when running on 32-bit systems, as used in products including The Sleuth Kit, might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large file that triggers an overflow that bypasses an assert() statement. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect patch for CVE-2007-1536.

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