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CVE-2014-9621

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The ELF parser in file 5.16 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string.

Affected products

• File Project File: 5.16, 5.17, 5.18, 5.19, 5.20, 5.21

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
• http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001654.html
• http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2015/001660.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/9
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-08
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3686-1/
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
• http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001654.html
• http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2015/001660.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/9
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c

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