CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-3538
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.
Affected configurations
• christos zoulas file (<= 5.18)
• christos zoulas file 5.00
• christos zoulas file 5.01
• christos zoulas file 5.02
• christos zoulas file 5.03
• christos zoulas file 5.04
• christos zoulas file 5.05
• christos zoulas file 5.06
• christos zoulas file 5.07
• christos zoulas file 5.08
• christos zoulas file 5.09
• christos zoulas file 5.10
• christos zoulas file 5.11
• christos zoulas file 5.12
• christos zoulas file 5.13
• christos zoulas file 5.14
• christos zoulas file 5.15
• christos zoulas file 5.16
• christos zoulas file 5.17
• php php (>= 5.4.0 < 5.4.32)
• php php (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.16)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html Broken Link
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/30/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60696 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3008 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68348 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098222 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/4a284c89d6ef11aca34da65da7d673050a5ea320 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/69a5a43b3b71f53b0577f41264a073f495799610 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/71a8b6c0d758acb0f73e2e51421a711b5e9d6668 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/74cafd7de9ec99a14f4480927580e501c8f852c3 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/758e066df72fb1ac08d2eea91ddc3973d259e991 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html Broken Link
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/30/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60696 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3008 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68348 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098222 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/4a284c89d6ef11aca34da65da7d673050a5ea320 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/69a5a43b3b71f53b0577f41264a073f495799610 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/71a8b6c0d758acb0f73e2e51421a711b5e9d6668 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/74cafd7de9ec99a14f4480927580e501c8f852c3 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/758e066df72fb1ac08d2eea91ddc3973d259e991 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659 Third Party Advisory