CVE-2012-1571

Description

file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

References

https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295

https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:035

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2