Vulnerability CVE-2014-3478
Published: 2014-07-09

Description:
Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

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
PHP -> PHP 
Christos zoulas -> FILE 

 References:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68239
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410
https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08
https://support.apple.com/HT204659
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