CVE-2007-2026

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-2026
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-04-13 18:19:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Amavis Virus Scanner All All All All
Application Gentoo File 4.20 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Amavis file Integer Underflow and Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
File Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner / Thread: [AMaViS-user] file chokes on too many line feed chars af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
rPath update for file - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mandriva update for file - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.amavis.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:114 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Gentoo file Denial of Service Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- File: Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Bug 174217 - sys-apps/file < 4.21-r1 Denial of Service (CVE-2007-2026) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1311 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-06-07Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of file as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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