[File] file-5.39 is now available
Christos Zoulas
christos at zoulas.com
Mon Jun 15 00:15:07 UTC 2020
Hello,
After many bug fixes and two additional magic types (guid, offset), a
new verson of file is now available from:
ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.39.tar.gz
Here is the list of changes:
* Remove unused subtype_mime (Steve Grubb)
* Remove unused check in okstat (Steve Grubb)
* Fix mime-type in elf binaries by making sure $x is set
* Fix indirect negative offsets broken by OFFNEGATIVE
* Fix GUID equality check
* PR/165: Handle empty array and strings in JSON
* PR/162: Add --exclude-quiet
* Fix memory leak in ascmagic (Steve Grubb)
* Fix string comparison length with ignore whitespace
* Fix mingwin 64 compilation
* PR/159: whitelist getpid needed for file_pipe2file()
* Indicate negative offsets with a flag OFFNEGATIVE
so that -0 works.
* Introduce "offset" magic type that can be used to
detect the file size, and bail on short files.
* document DER better in the magic man page.
* fix memory leaks (SonarQube)
* rewrite confusing loops (SonarQube)
* fix bogus test (SonarQube)
* pass a sized buffer to file_fmttime() (SonarQube)
* Don't allow * in printf formats, or the code itself (Christoph Biedl)
* Introduce a printf output size checker to avoid DoS attacks
* Avoid memory leak on error (oss-fuzz)
* Check length of string on DER before derefercing and add new types
* Add missing DER string (oss-fuzz)
* Add missing DER types, and debugging
* PR/140: Avoid abort with hand-crafted magic file (gockelhahn)
* PR/139: Avoid DoS in printf with hand-crafted magic file (gockelhahn)
* PR/138: Avoid crash with hand-crafted magic file (gockelhahn)
* PR/136: Fix static build by adding a libmagic.pc (Fabrice Fontaine)
* add guid support native support via the "guid" type.
Enjoy and stay healthy,
christos
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