CVE-2014-3478
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Jul 9, 2014
- Updated
- Dec 4, 2025
- Reserved
- May 14, 2014
Description
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.
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-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659
- RHSA-2014:1766vendor-advisory
- DSA-3021vendor-advisory
- HPSBUX03102vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- DSA-2974vendor-advisory
- 59794third-party-advisory
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- [file] 20140612 file-5.19 is now availablemailing-list
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08
- 68239vdb-entry
- APPLE-SA-2015-04-08-2vendor-advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
- RHSA-2014:1327vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- RHSA-2014:1765vendor-advisory
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410
- 59831third-party-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1236vendor-advisory
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