I've updated the Cygwin version of file to 5.22-1. This is an update to the latest official upstream version. This release fixes various CVE bugs:
CVE-2014-9653: malformed elf file causes access to uninitialized memory CVE-2014-9621: limit string printing to 100 chars CVE-2014-9620: limit the number of ELF notes processed CVE-2014-8116: multiple denial of service issues (resource consumption) CVE-2014-8117: denial of service issue (resource consumption) Have fun, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple