MGASA-2014-0307

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    MGASA-2014-0307

    Published: 5 Aug 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3538

    Summary: Updated file packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345 (CVE-2014-3538). The Mageia 3 update also fixes a possible crash in softmagic.c due to an improperly rediffed patch for a memory leak in a previous update (mga#13701).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0307.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13667, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13701, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2278-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: file

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.12-8.6.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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