CVE-2014-3478
MEDIUMEPSS 96th pctlDescription
Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59831
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68239
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659
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