Vulnerability CVE-2014-8117
Published: 2014-12-17   Modified: 2014-12-18

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Mageia -> Mageia 
Freebsd -> Freebsd 
File project -> FILE 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1056
http://secunia.com/advisories/61944
http://secunia.com/advisories/62081
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71692
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031344
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2494-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2535-1
https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog
https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc
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