K16347: Linux file utility vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117

Security Advisory Description CVE-2014-8116 The ELF parser readelf.c in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or crash via a large number of 1 program or 2 section headers or 3 invalid capabilities. CVE-2014-8117 softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : file (SUSE-SU-2017:3048-1)

The GNU file utility was updated to version 5.22. Security issues fixed : - CVE-2014-9621: The ELF parser in file allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string. bsc913650 - CVE-2014-9620: The ELF parser in file allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux file utility vulnerabilities (K16347)

CVE-2014-8116 The ELF parser readelf.c in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or crash via a large number of 1 program or 2 section headers or 3 invalid capabilities. CVE-2014-8117 softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion,...

CVE-2015-4605

The mcopy function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly restrict a certain offset value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute...

Code injection

The mcopy function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly restrict a certain offset value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute...

CVE-2015-4605

The mcopy function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly restrict a certain offset value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute...

CVE-2015-4605

The mcopy function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly restrict a certain offset value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4604

The mget function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly maintain a certain pointer relationship, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly...

CVE-2015-4604

The mget function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly maintain a certain pointer relationship, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly...

Out-of-bounds

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote...

CVE-2014-9652

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote...

CVE-2014-9652

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote...

CVE-2014-9652

CVE-2014-9652 affects the Fileinfo component’s mconvert path (softmagic.c) used by PHP’s fileinfo. The vulnerability arises from improper handling of a string-length field when copying a truncated Pascal string, potentially allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via out-of-bounds...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2015-497)

The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes. CVE-2014-9620 The ELF parser readelf.c in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or crash via a large number of 1 program or 2...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9652

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote...

CVE-2014-8117

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

EUVD-2014-7962

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...

CVE-2014-8117

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2014-382)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document Format CDF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file. Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in...