Re: OpenBSD 4.1 - Heap overflow vulnerabillity

[e-mail] wrote:
> The command "file" is vulnerable to heap overflow.
> 
> Solution:
> 
> Patch the kernel source with:
> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.1/common/009_file.patch
> 
> By AchedDamiman

This is CVE-2007-1536, discovered by Jean-Sebastien Guay-Leroux.

Patches are also available for OpenBSD 4.0:
http://openbsd.org/errata40.html#015_file