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CVE-2014-3478 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59794 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59831 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68239 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Patch 
https://support.apple.com/HT204659 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST   CISA-ADP  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-3478
NVD Published Date:
07/09/2014
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.