CVE-2014-2270

medium

Published 2014-03-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

softmagic.c in file before 5.17 and libmagic allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and crash) via crafted offsets in the softmagic of a PE executable.

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

SUSE Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.1	Affected	—
12.3	Affected	—
11.4	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

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

Debian Mixed 8 releases

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

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
file_project	file	`{"endExcluding":"5.17"}`	`5.17`
php	php	`{"endExcluding":"5.4.26"}`	`5.4.26`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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