CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9652

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2015-03-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-03-30
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-119

Description

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected configurations

• php php (<= 5.4.36) • php php 5.5.0 • php php 5.5.1 • php php 5.5.2 • php php 5.5.3 • php php 5.5.4 • php php 5.5.5 • php php 5.5.6 • php php 5.5.7 • php php 5.5.8 • php php 5.5.9 • php php 5.5.10 • php php 5.5.11 • php php 5.5.12 • php php 5.5.13 • php php 5.5.14 • php php 5.5.15 • php php 5.5.16 • php php 5.5.17 • php php 5.5.18 • php php 5.5.19 • php php 5.5.20 • php php 5.6.0 • php php 5.6.1 • php php 5.6.2 • php php 5.6.3 • php php 5.6.4 • file project file (<= 5.20)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References