CVE-2014-1943

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-02-10

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension handled indirect rules. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to crash or consume an excessive amount of CPU.

See more information about CVE-2014-1943 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (php53)	ELSA-2014-1012	2014-08-06
Oracle Linux version 6 (file)	ELSA-2014-1606	2014-10-15
Oracle Linux version 6 (php)	ELSA-2014-1012	2014-08-06

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