CVE-2014-9652
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.052 · 92 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted file.
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- http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=398cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/12cnnvd
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpcnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72505cnnvd
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68735cnnvd
- https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=68735&patch=bug68735.patch&revision=1420309079cnnvd
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/59e63838913eee47f5c120a6c53d4565af638158cnnvd
- http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=398enisa_euvd
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