PT-2014-7836 · Exuberant+3 · Exuberant Ctags+3

Stefano Zacchiroli · Published 2014-10-02 · Updated 2024-06-28 · CVE-2014-7204

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 Exuberant Ctags version 5.8

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop and consumption of CPU and disk resources, via a crafted JavaScript file.

Recommendations For Exuberant Ctags version 5.8, consider avoiding the use of jscript.c until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted JavaScript files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2022-1694

ALT-PU-2024-7014

ALT-PU-2024-7062

ALT-PU-2024-8944

CVE-2014-7204

DLA-69-1

DSA-3042-1

MGASA-2014-0415

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10296-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2097-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2097-1

USN-2371-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Exuberant Ctags

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 40

• 🔥 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742605 · Exploit
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2022-1694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-7204 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2024-7062 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7204 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2097-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7204 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7204 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0415 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140349.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7204 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3042 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2014-7204 · Vendor Advisory