Out-of-bounds read in file - CVE-2014-3710

Vulnerability identifier: #VU3892

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3710

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to the donote function in readelf.c in file through 5.20, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP 5.4.34, does not ensure that sufficient note headers are present. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read and cause the application to crash via a crafted ELF file.

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Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Slackware Linux
Fedora
php5 (Ubuntu package)
file

Install update from vendor's website.

php5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.28, 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.15
file - update to 5.19-7.fc21

• https://github.com/file/file/commit/39c7ac1106be844a5296d3eb5971946cc09ffda0

• Ubuntu update for php5
• Amazon Linux AMI update for file
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php55
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php54
• Slackware Linux update for php
• Red Hat update for php53
• Red Hat update for php
• Gentoo update for PHP
• Fedora 21 update for file