CVE-2014-3478
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…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 15.18% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- christos zoulas/file · php/php
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59831
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68239
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410Patch
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08Exploit, Patch
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59831
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.