Published: 21/01/2015 Updated: 16/06/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The ELF parser in file 5.16 up to and including 5.21 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service via a long string.

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file project file 5.20
file project file 5.21
file project file 5.16
file project file 5.17
file project file 5.18
file project file 5.19

Several security issues were fixed in file ...

The ELF parser in file 508 through 521 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes (CVE-2014-9620) The ELF parser (readelfc) in file before 521 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities ...

The ELF parser in file 516 through 521 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string ...

CWE-399 http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2015/001660.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/9 https://github.com/file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001654.html http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-08 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3686-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3686-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-9621

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