CVE-2013-7345 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-7345

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in...

Vulnerability Description

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

christos zoulas

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Affected Software

file, php, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 5.4.0, 5.5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 23rd, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.