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
attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and
application crash) via a crafted file.

Bugs

• <http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=398&gt;
• <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68735&gt;