file

A utility for determining file types

Description

The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the
type of data contained by the file.  File can identify many different
file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and
different graphics formats.
Website: http://www.darwinsys.com/file/
License: BSD
Vendor: Baruwa Enterprise Edition https://packages.baruwa.com/
Group: applications/file

Packages

file-5.04-30.1.el6_10.x86_64 [49 KiB] Changelog by Andrew Colin Kissa (2026-05-15):
- FIX: CVE-2019-18218
file-5.04-30.el6.x86_64 [49 KiB] Changelog by Jan Kaluza (2016-02-16):
- fix CVE-2014-3538 (unrestricted regular expression matching)