CVE-2014-3538
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 12%
exploitation probability
12%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.htmlhttp://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.htmlhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/30/7http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098222http://secunia.com/advisories/60696https://github.com/file/file/commit/4a284c89d6ef11aca34da65da7d673050a5ea320https://github.com/file/file/commit/69a5a43b3b71f53b0577f41264a073f495799610https://github.com/file/file/commit/71a8b6c0d758acb0f73e2e51421a711b5e9d6668