CVE-2012-1571

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jul 17, 2012
Updated: Dec 4, 2025
Reserved: Mar 12, 2012

Description

file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

DSA-2422vendor-advisory
MDVSA-2012:035vendor-advisory
https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b
[file] 20120221 file-5.11 is now availablemailing-list
https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295
USN-2123-1vendor-advisory

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