CVE-2014-8116

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
File Project File: 5.20
FreeBSD: all versions
Mageia: 4.0

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1056
http://secunia.com/advisories/61944
http://secunia.com/advisories/62081
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71700
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031344
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2494-1
https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog
https://github.com/file/file/commit/b4c01141e5367f247b84dcaf6aefbb4e741842b8

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