CVE-2012-1571

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Christos Zoulas File: through 5.10
Tim Robbins Libmagic: all versions

References

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

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