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CVE-2014-2270

Publication date 14 March 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
file 13.10 saucy
Fixed 5.11-2ubuntu4.2
12.10 quantal
Fixed 5.11-2ubuntu0.2
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.09-2ubuntu0.3
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 5.03-5ubuntu1.2
php5 13.10 saucy
Fixed 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
12.10 quantal
Fixed 5.4.6-1ubuntu1.8
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24

Notes

mdeslaur

see regression fix in DSA-2873-2 The regression in the debian package is caused by a fix for a different issue which does not seem to have a CVE number: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703993 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742262 (file regression 1) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742265 (file regression 2)

Patch details

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Package Patch details
file
php5

References

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