SUSE CVE-2014-3538

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...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

file is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as 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 duri...

Updated file packages fix security vulnerability

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, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345...

CVE-2014-3538

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...

CVE-2014-3538

CVE-2014-3538 affects the file utility: multiple flaws found in the file regular expression rules used to detect file types can cause denial of service via CPU exhaustion when processing crafted inputs; this issue is tied to an incomplete previous fix (CVE-2013-7345). Affected data shows updated ...