Description
Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, 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.
Published: 2014-07-09
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: 25.3% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-27-1 file security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-145-1 php5 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2974-1 php5 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3021-1 file security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3021-2 file regression update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2276-1 PHP vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2278-1 file vulnerabilities
History

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Christos Zoulas File
Php Php
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Software Collections
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-04T20:26:53.242Z

Reserved: 2014-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-3478

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:43:06.121Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-07-09T11:07:01.587

Modified: 2025-12-04T21:16:05.920

Link: CVE-2014-3478

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-06-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-3478 - Bugzilla

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