The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-7117 The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T18:01:20.506Z

Reserved: 2014-03-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-7345

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-03-24T16:31:08.167

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2013-7345

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-12-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-7345 - Bugzilla

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