Package: file
Version: 4.21-1
Followup-For: Bug #428293

Different issue, but here is information about DoS bug:
http://www.amavis.org/security/asa-2007-3.txt

-quote begin-
To check, if this issue has been properly fixed, please do
the following steps:

$ perl -e 'for (1..2700) {print "\n" x 10}' >0.lis
$ file 0.lis

The output
"0.lis: ASCII text"
must appear immediately, without creating a huge CPU load.
-quote end-

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1                     4.21-1     File type determination library us

file recommends no packages.

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