PT-2014-8413 · File+4 · File+4

Thomas Jarosch · Published 2014-12-17 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-8116

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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption or a crash. This can be achieved by providing a large number of program or section headers, or by utilizing invalid capabilities.

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

CESA-2015_2155

CESA-2016_0760

CVE-2014-8116

DLA-131-1

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-2014_1730-1

SUSE-SU-2017:3048-1

SUSE-SU-2017_3048-1

USN-2494-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

File

References · 56

• https://github.com/file/file/commit/d7cdad007c507e6c79f51f058dd77fab70ceb9f6 · Patch
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/b4c01141e5367f247b84dcaf6aefbb4e741842b8 · Patch
• https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8116 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2494-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8116 · Security Note
• https://freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0760.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10221-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3710 · Vendor Advisory