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| Name: file | Distribution: SUSE LINUX 10.0 (X86-64) |
| Version: 4.14 | Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany |
| Release: 3.5 | Build date: Fri May 25 17:33:56 2007 |
| Group: Productivity/File utilities | Build host: barett.suse.de |
| Size: 1471698 | Source RPM: file-4.14-3.5.src.rpm |
| Packager: http://www.suse.de/feedback | |
| Summary: A tool to determine file types | |
With "file" you can obtain information on the file type of a specified
file. File type recognition is controlled by the file /etc/magic, which
contains the classification criteria. This command is used by apsfilter
to permit automatic printing of different file types.
Authors:
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Mark Moraes <moraes@deshaw.com>
Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
Other uncritical OpenSource License
internal MD5: 95bab8f1370f7ddeb9908e19449b9d7f
GPG
* Thu May 24 2007 - werner@suse.de
- Fix of the fix for bug #256290 with CVE-2007-2799
* Wed Mar 21 2007 - werner@suse.de
- Fix integer underflow in file_printf which to avoid exploitable
heap overflow CVE-2007-1536 (#256290)
* Tue Aug 23 2005 - werner@suse.de
- Fix broken cracklib magic (bug #106007)
* Mon Jul 25 2005 - werner@suse.de
- Update to new file 4.14
- Split of the development version as own package
* Fri Jul 01 2005 - werner@suse.de
- Even for netware the columns in the magic entry are seperated
by tabs
- Add cracklib magics (bug #93673)
* Mon Jun 13 2005 - mmj@suse.de
- Add primitive magic for detecting netware loadable modules (NLMs)
- Don't remove buildroot before install
- Don't strip binaries explicitly
- %doc is implied by %man
* Thu Mar 17 2005 - werner@suse.de
- Be sure that the pipe/fifo patch works (bug #73644)
* Thu Mar 10 2005 - werner@suse.de
- Be able to use the -s option even on pipes (bug #71074)
- Do not hang on sockets or pipes not opened on the write side
* Fri Feb 18 2005 - werner@suse.de
- Update to file 4.13 for fixes in handling of bzip2 and DOS files
- Do not be fooled by minix filesystems magics on jpeg files
* Fri Nov 26 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Update to file 4.12, this may fix a security issue (bug #48576)
* Tue Sep 28 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Correct PCP entries (bug #46111)
* Thu Sep 16 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Read HOWMANY bytes even from a pipe (reported by max)
* Thu Aug 26 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Update to bugfix release 4.09
* Tue Aug 24 2004 - lmuelle@suse.de
- Add -fPIC to the CFLAGS.
* Wed May 26 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Don't trap into string formats if integers are provided (#41209)
* Mon May 24 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Check for random data within ELF header (bug #40909)
* Thu Feb 12 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Add name offsets for CORE dumps even for 64bit ELF (bug #34461)
* Tue Jan 20 2004 - werner@suse.de
- Update to 4.07
* Mon Dec 15 2003 - werner@suse.de
- Add workaround for new automake `feature' of ignoring man pages
- Ensure that the correct break condition is returned if readelf
past the end of the buffer (bug #33644).
* Mon Dec 08 2003 - werner@suse.de
- Update to 4.06
- Use /etc/magic:/usr/share/misc/magic as magic and move /etc/magic
to a real configuration file for _local_ settings (bug #32725).
* Sat Oct 18 2003 - kukuk@suse.de
- Add patch to detect policy file for SE Linux
- Build as normal user
- Clean up build root
* Mon Sep 29 2003 - werner@suse.de
- Avoid endless loop due wrong alignment in old ELF binaries
* Tue Sep 16 2003 - werner@suse.de
- Extend buffer from 64kb upto 68kB to find ReiserFS (bug #30736)
* Wed Jul 02 2003 - werner@suse.de
- Use _libdir
* Tue Jul 01 2003 - werner@suse.de
- Update to file 4.03
* Thu Apr 17 2003 - coolo@suse.de
- use BuildRoot
* Tue Mar 04 2003 - werner@suse.de
- Fix buffer overflow in elf detection
* Tue Dec 17 2002 - olh@suse.de
- use RPM_BUILD_ROOT, not BUILD_ROOT in testsuite
* Mon Nov 11 2002 - ro@suse.de
- fix deprecated multiline string literal (from longopt patch)
* Tue Sep 17 2002 - ro@suse.de
- removed bogus self-provides
* Tue Jul 23 2002 - werner@suse.de
- Add mySQL bytes to magic (bug #16138)
* Fri Jun 07 2002 - olh@suse.de
- don't change the union u in readelf.c:tryelf() on ppc64
* Mon Feb 04 2002 - werner@suse.de
- Fix looking of manual page
* Mon Feb 04 2002 - werner@suse.de
- Add some magics for METAFONT format files
- Add inofficial long options for LSB
* Thu Dec 27 2001 - adrian@suse.de
- fix file output for mips binaries. The old output broke several
ltconfig scripts in other packages and was wrong anyway.
- recompress tar ball with bz2
* Wed Dec 19 2001 - werner@suse.de
- update to version 3.37
* Sat Jun 30 2001 - bk@suse.de
- update to version 3.33
- don't change the union u in readelf.c:tryelf() on s390x.
- option i: fix one-byte memory underallocation - strcat adds '\0'
* Thu Jun 07 2001 - werner@suse.de
- Autoconf and Elf header: make it work again
* Fri May 04 2001 - werner@suse.de
- Make symlink /etc/magic a relative one
* Tue Jan 16 2001 - werner@suse.de
- Change order to find WAVE and TTF data before G3, apple and
macintosh data.
- Change string detection of PFM data to bit comparision masking
out the third bit to make raw G3 work.
* Sun Dec 03 2000 - schwab@suse.de
- Don't match against artificial null byte.
- Fix resource leaks.
* Tue Nov 28 2000 - aj@suse.de
- Add LFS support.
* Tue Nov 14 2000 - werner@suse.de
- Correct version handling of Linux/i386 Kernel setup header
* Mon Nov 13 2000 - werner@suse.de
- Fix handling of Microsoft Access Database in comparision
with Digifax-G3-File.
* Tue Oct 03 2000 - kukuk@suse.de
- fix inclusion of config.h
- Add group tag
* Thu Sep 28 2000 - werner@suse.de
- Move Magdir changes into misc dif
- Remove exectuable from text scripts
* Fri Sep 15 2000 - werner@suse.de
- Update to version 3.32
* Tue Jun 20 2000 - werner@suse.de
- /usr/lib/magic -> /usr/share/misc/magic
* Thu Feb 03 2000 - schwab@suse.de
- Ignore SHT_DYNSYM sections when deciding whether object is stripped.
* Fri Jan 28 2000 - schwab@suse.de
- Fix int32 vs long problem.
* Thu Jan 27 2000 - schwab@suse.de
- Fix non-ascii literal characters in string
- Specfile cleanup, get rid of Makefile.Linux
- /usr/man -> /usr/share/man
* Thu Nov 25 1999 - schwab@suse.de
- Fix location of magic file.
* Tue Nov 23 1999 - kukuk@suse.de
- Update to version 3.27
- Add patches for SPARC
* Mon Sep 13 1999 - bs@suse.de
- ran old prepare_spec on spec file to switch to new prepare_spec.
* Tue Aug 24 1999 - uli@suse.de
- added -fsigned-char to CFLAGS (PPC)
* Wed Nov 04 1998 - ro@suse.de
- disabled dcore (won't build with glibc-2.0)
* Thu Oct 01 1998 - ro@suse.de
- update to 3.26
- hacked dcore.c to build with glibc-2.1
* Fri Oct 10 1997 - florian@suse.de
- add some more entries to magic
* Wed Jun 25 1997 - florian@suse.de
- add additional entries to recognize LaTeX files
* Tue May 27 1997 - florian@suse.de
- add some additional entries from mgetty/vgetty
- add additional entries for CLISP and GNU gettext from Bruno Haible
* Wed Jan 22 1997 - florian@suse.de
- update to version 3.22
* Thu Jan 02 1997 - florian@suse.de
- recognise german umlauts as text: dirty hack, but also call "setlocale"
for correctly installed systems...
- add "dcore"-program to show some information about core-files
* Thu Jan 02 1997 - florian@suse.de
- update to version 3.21
- mv /etc/magic /usr/lib/magic (/etc/magic is still a symlink to new
location)
* Thu Jan 02 1997 - florian@suse.de
- added missing entries for G3-fax (from mgetty source)
/etc/magic /usr/bin/file /usr/lib64/libmagic.so.1 /usr/lib64/libmagic.so.1.0.0 /usr/share/man/man1/file.1.gz /usr/share/man/man5/magic.5.gz /usr/share/misc/magic /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc /usr/share/misc/magic.mime /usr/share/misc/magic.mime.mgc
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