Out-of-Bounds Affecting file package, versions <1:5.19-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
15.66% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-FILE-516148
  • published9 Jul 2014
  • disclosed9 Jul 2014

Introduced: 9 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-3478  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 file to version 1:5.19-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream file package and not the file package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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