Description

Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

Remediation

References

CVE-2014-3478

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2014-3478 CWE-119

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities