CVE-2014-1943

medium

Published 2014-02-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Fine Free file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash) via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.10	Affected	—
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:5.17-0.1`
sid	Fixed	`1:5.17-0.1`
forky	Fixed	`1:5.17-0.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:5.17-0.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:5.17-0.1`
7.0	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
fine_free_file_project	fine_free_file	`{"endExcluding":"5.17"}`	`5.17`
php	php	`{"startIncluding":"5.4.0","endExcluding":"5.4.26"}`	`5.4.26`

References

CWEs

CWE-755

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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