CVE-2014-8117

Description

softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1056

http://secunia.com/advisories/61944

http://secunia.com/advisories/62081

https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog

https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031344

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2494-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2535-1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2