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Resource Management Errors Affecting file-libs package, versions <0:5.19-1.18.amzn1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.78% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN201803-FILELIBS-1676201
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 3 Jul 2014
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Introduced: 3 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-3538 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-399 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 file-libs to version 0:5.19-1.18.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2014-382.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream file-libs package and not the file-libs package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

4.3 medium