5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.4%
The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | file | < 1:5.17-0.1 | file_1:5.17-0.1_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | file | < 1:5.17-0.1 | file_1:5.17-0.1_all.deb |
Debian | 10 | all | file | < 1:5.17-0.1 | file_1:5.17-0.1_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | file | < 1:5.17-0.1 | file_1:5.17-0.1_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | file | < 1:5.17-0.1 | file_1:5.17-0.1_all.deb |