Medium: file

Issue Overview:

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.

Affected Packages:

file

Issue Correction:
Run yum update file to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    file-static-5.11-13.16.amzn1.i686  
    file-libs-5.11-13.16.amzn1.i686  
    file-debuginfo-5.11-13.16.amzn1.i686  
    file-5.11-13.16.amzn1.i686  
    file-devel-5.11-13.16.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    python-magic-5.11-13.16.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    file-5.11-13.16.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    file-libs-5.11-13.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-static-5.11-13.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-5.11-13.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-debuginfo-5.11-13.16.amzn1.x86_64  
    file-devel-5.11-13.16.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-7345

Mitre: CVE-2013-7345