CVE-2014-8117
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 17, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 10, 2014
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- USN-2535-1vendor-advisory
- 71692vdb-entry
- 61944third-party-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- FreeBSD-SA-14:28vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:0760vendor-advisory
- USN-2494-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c
- 1031344vdb-entry
- 62081third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20141216 file(1): multiple denial of service issues (resource consumption), CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117mailing-list
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
- https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog
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