CVE-2012-1571
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 5.11-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 5.11-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 5.11-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 5.11-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 5.11-1 |
References
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:035
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1
- https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295
- https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1571
CWEs
CWE-119 CWE-125
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.