CVE-2012-1571

medium

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

Advisories
More

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

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

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

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

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

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-07-17

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H