Vulnerability CVE-2014-9621
Published: 2015-01-21   Modified: 2015-01-22

Description:
The ELF parser in file 5.16 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string.

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
File project -> FILE 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001654.html
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2015/001660.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/9
https://github.com/file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-08
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3686-1/
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