Vulnerability CVE-2012-1571
Published: 2012-07-17   Modified: 2012-07-18

Description:
file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Tim robbins -> Libmagic 
Christos zoulas -> FILE 

 References:
https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b
https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:035
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422
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