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CVE-2014-9620
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
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| Impact | CVSS score of 5.0 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 7.20%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified under CWE-399. The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes. Affected products include: File Project File. Version information: through 5.21.
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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EPSS
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How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP be
file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers
do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack corrupt
do_bid_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printf and file_
Integer overflow in the cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in file through 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component
cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDF_VECTOR elements, which allows a
file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Docume
softmagic.c in file before 5.17 and libmagic allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bou
The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildc
readelf.c in file before 5.22, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x be
do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has an out-of-bounds read because memcpy is misused. Rated medium s
do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 has a stack-based buffer over-read, related to file_printable, a di
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