CVE-2014-3538 - CVE House
Back to Database
Status published Medium CVE-2014-3538

file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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

THREAT MONITOR

Am I Vulnerable?

Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2014-3538

Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

More from christos zoulas

View All →
CVE-2014-3587
Integer overflow in the cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in file...
Medium 4.3
CVE-2014-3478
Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file...
Unknown 0
CVE-2014-0207
The cdf_read_short_sector function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as...
Unknown 0
CVE-2013-7345
The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in...
Medium 5
CVE-2012-1571
file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause...
Unknown 0

Affected Vendor

christos zoulas

View all reports →

Affected Software

file, php, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 5.00, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.05, 5.06, 5.07, 5.08, 5.09, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 5.16, 5.17, 5.4.0, 5.5.0, 7.0, 8.0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 3rd, 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.