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CVE-2014-3538

Disclosure Date: July 03, 2014
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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.

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General Information

Vendors

  • christos zoulas,
  • debian,
  • php

Products

  • debian linux 7.0,
  • debian linux 8.0,
  • file,
  • file 5.00,
  • file 5.01,
  • file 5.02,
  • file 5.03,
  • file 5.04,
  • file 5.05,
  • file 5.06,
  • file 5.07,
  • file 5.08,
  • file 5.09,
  • file 5.10,
  • file 5.11,
  • file 5.12,
  • file 5.13,
  • file 5.14,
  • file 5.15,
  • file 5.16,
  • file 5.17,
  • php

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