CVE-2014-3478
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CVE-2014-3478
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.
Exploit probability
15.2%
Published
July 9, 2014
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2014-3478
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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://secunia.com/advisories/59794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59831
- 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