CVE-2014-7204

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04
Debian Linux: 7.0
Debian Exuberant Ctags: 5.8
Mageia: 3.0, 4.0

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/791/
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3042
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:178
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/40
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2371-1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742605
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/791/
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3042
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:178
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/40

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