CVE-2014-9653

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% 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-20

Description

readelf.c in file before 5.22, 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 consider that pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
File Project File: through 5.21
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=409
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001649.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/13
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3196
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
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/72516

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