CVE-2014-8117

Published: 17 December 2014

softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
file Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Released (5.03-5ubuntu1.5)
	precise	Released (5.09-2ubuntu0.6)
	trusty	Released (1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3)
	upstream	Needs triage
	utopic	Released (1:5.19-1ubuntu1.2)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/file/file/commit/0de3251fe9fdeb00ec4c6d694d4d6709f202d1ee (bp) upstream: https://github.com/file/file/commit/c0c0032b9e9eb57b91fefef905a3b018bab492d9 (bp) upstream: https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c upstream: https://github.com/file/file/commit/90018fe22ff8b74a22fcd142225b0a00f3f12677 upstream: https://github.com/file/file/commit/5063ca3a2e00c5499789ccaa1ae2a41611377b77 upstream: https://github.com/file/file/commit/6bf45271eb8e0e6577b92042ce2003ba998d1686
php5 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Released (5.3.2-1ubuntu4.29)
	precise	Released (5.3.10-1ubuntu3.17)
	trusty	Released (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7)
	upstream	Needs triage
	utopic	Released (5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.3)

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773148

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