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FreeBSD Security Advisory - Heap overflow in file(1) (FreeBSD-SA-07:04.file).

When writing data into a buffer in the file_printf function, the length
of the unused portion of the buffer is not correctly tracked, resulting
in a buffer overflow when processing certain files.more

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