PT-2014-1933 · File+5 · File+5

Published 2014-12-17 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-8117

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions file versions prior to 5.21

Description The issue is related to the softmagic.c file in the file package, which does not properly limit recursion. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption or a crash, via unspecified vectors. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely and may lead to disruption of protected information availability.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.21, update to version 5.21 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-2505

ALT-PU-2023-1892

BDU:2015-09797

CESA-2015_2155

CESA-2016_0760

CVE-2014-8117

DLA-131-1

DLA-145-1

DSA-2868-1

DSA-3121-1

MGASA-2014-0537

MGASA-2015-0040

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10221-1

RHSA-2015:2155

RHSA-2015_2155

RHSA-2016:0760

RHSA-2016_0760

SUSE-SU-2017:3048-1

USN-2494-1

USN-2535-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

File

References · 63

• https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c · Patch
• https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9705 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2494-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html · Security Note
• https://freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0760.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2301 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2535-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10221-1 · Vendor Advisory