A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension processed certain Pascal strings. A remote attacker able to make a PHP application using fileinfo convert a specially crafted Pascal string provided by an image file could cause that application to crash.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3478 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of file, php, and php53 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
This issue affects the versions of file as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (php) | RHSA-2014:1327 | 2014-09-30 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (file) | RHSA-2015:2155 | 2015-11-19 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (php54-php) | RHSA-2014:1765 | 2014-10-30 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (php54-php) | RHSA-2014:1765 | 2014-10-30 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (php55-php) | RHSA-2014:1766 | 2014-10-30 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (php55-php) | RHSA-2014:1766 | 2014-10-30 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | file | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | php | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | rpm | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php53 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | file | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | cdrtools | Not affected |
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