UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9653

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UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9653

Summary:

Details: readelf.c in file before 5.22, 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 consider that pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9653, http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001649.html, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/04/13, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3686-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9653