MGASA-2014-0142

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    MGASA-2014-0142

    Published: 31 Mar 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-7345

    Summary: Updated file packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters (CVE-2013-7345).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0142.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13105, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-March/130688.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: file

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/file?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.12-8.3.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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