ubuntu · CVE-2014-9652

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Priority: low Published: 2015-01-08 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2014-9652 low priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (file, php5), 10 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic): released 7, not-affected 3.

Description:

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, 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 properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted file.

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