CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8117
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-17
- 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
softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• file project file (<= 5.20)
• freebsd freebsd
• mageia mageia 4.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1056 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61944 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62081 secunia.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71692 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031344 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2494-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2535-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc Vendor Advisory
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1056 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61944 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62081 secunia.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71692 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031344 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2494-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2535-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc Vendor Advisory