CVE-2014-3478

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-06-27
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

See more information about CVE-2014-3478 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (file)	ELSA-2015-2155	2015-11-23
Oracle Linux version 7 (php)	ELSA-2014-1327	2014-09-30