DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9652

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9652

    Published: 30 Mar 2015Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-9652

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9652

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: file

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/file?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:5.21+15-1

    Affected versions

    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
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