CVE-2014-9652

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

File Project File: through 5.20
PHP: through 5.4.36; 5.5.0, 5.5.0-alpha1, 5.5.0-alpha2, 5.5.0-alpha3, 5.5.0-alpha4, 5.5.0-alpha5 (+40)

References

http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=398
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/12
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1053.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html

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