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    CVE-2014-0207

    The cdf_read_short_sector function in cdf.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 (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted CDF file.

    Published:Jun 27, 2014
    Last Modified:Dec 4, 2025
    EPS:Jul 9, 2014
    EPSS Score:0.14534
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Christos Zoulas
    Product
    File
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Linux
    Vendor
    Php
    Product
    Php
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Software Collections

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-100 Overflow Buffers
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-123 Buffer Manipulation
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-44 Overflow Binary Resource File
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2014-3587 (CVSS 4.3) — Integer overflow in the cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in file through 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo…
    CVE-2014-3538 (CVSS 5) — file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote…
    CVE-2014-3478 (CVSS 6.5) — Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component…
    CVE-2012-1571 (CVSS 6.5) — file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Compos…
    CVE-2013-7345 (CVSS 5) — The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses mult…
    CVE-2009-3930 (CVSS 9.3) — Multiple integer overflows in Christos Zoulas file before 5.02 allow user-assisted remote attackers to have an…
    CVE-2009-1515 (CVSS 6.8) — Heap-based buffer overflow in the cdf_read_sat function in src/cdf.c in Christos Zoulas file 5.00 allows user-…

    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-2014-1765.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/68243
    https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67326
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091842
    https://github.com/file/file/commit/6d209c1c489457397a5763bca4b28e43aac90391
    https://support.apple.com/HT204659
    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-2014-1765.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/68243
    https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67326
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091842
    https://github.com/file/file/commit/6d209c1c489457397a5763bca4b28e43aac90391
    https://support.apple.com/HT204659

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High