CVE-2014-3478

Publication date 9 July 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
file	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1
	13.10 saucy	Fixed 5.11-2ubuntu4.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.09-2ubuntu0.4
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
php5	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3
	13.10 saucy	Fixed 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.6
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

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

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
file	Upstream: 27a14bc
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=e77659a8c87272e5061738a31430d2111482c426

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2278-1
file vulnerabilities
15 July 2014

USN-2276-1
PHP vulnerabilities
9 July 2014

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3478