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CVE-2014-3478

Published: 9 July 2014

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
php in precise and earlier doesn't look vulnerable
file in lucid doesn't look vulnerable

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
file
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Not vulnerable
(5.03-5ubuntu1.2)
precise
Released (5.09-2ubuntu0.4)
saucy
Released (5.11-2ubuntu4.3)
trusty
Released (1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1)
upstream
Released (1:5.19-1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08

php5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Not vulnerable

precise Not vulnerable

saucy
Released (5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.6)
trusty
Released (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3)
upstream
Released (5.6.0~rc1+dfsg-1)
Patches:

upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=e77659a8c87272e5061738a31430d2111482c426