UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3478

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3478

    Published: 9 Jul 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3478

    Summary:

    Details: Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.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 (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3478, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2276-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2278-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3478

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: file

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/file@1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1

    Affected versions

    5.11-2ubuntu4

    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