Resource exhaustion in file - CVE-2014-1943
Published: November 27, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16078
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1943
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite recursion when insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A local attacker can trigger CPU consumption and cause the service to crash.
Affected software
file
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Slackware Linux
php5 (Ubuntu package)
file (Alpine package)
dev-lang/php
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Slackware Linux
php5 (Ubuntu package)
file (Alpine package)
dev-lang/php
How to mitigate CVE-2014-1943
Install updates from vendor's website.
file - update to 5.17
php5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.23, 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.10
file (Alpine package) - update to 5.17-r0
dev-lang/php - update to 5.5.16
php5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.23, 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.10
file (Alpine package) - update to 5.17-r0
dev-lang/php - update to 5.5.16