Executive Summary

Summary
Title file: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201403-03 First vendor Publication 2014-03-13
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-03-13
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in file could result in Denial of Service.

Background

file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for patterns.

Description

A flaw was found in the way the file utility determines the type of a file.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All file users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/file-5.17"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-1943 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-1943

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201403-03.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201403-03.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23670
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23670
Title: DSA-2861-1 file - denial of service
Description: It was discovered that file, a file type classification tool, contains a flaw in the handling of <q>indirect</q> magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2861-1
CVE-2014-1943
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): file
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23706
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23706
Title: DSA-2868-1 php5 - denial of service
Description: It was discovered that file, a file type classification tool, contains a flaw in the handling of <q>indirect</q> magic rules in the libmagic library, which leads to an infinite recursion when trying to determine the file type of certain files.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2868-1
CVE-2014-1943
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/Linux 7
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7
Product(s): php5
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24044
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:24044
Title: USN-2123-1 -- file vulnerabilities
Description: File could be made to crash if it processed a specially crafted file.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2123-1
CVE-2012-1571
CVE-2014-1943
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): file
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 15
Application 545
Os 4
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-08-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_70140f20600711e6a6c314dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-080.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_php_20140522.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-12 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2014-1606.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-04 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20141014_file_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-17 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-1606.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-10-14 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2014-1606.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-09-18 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes multiple vulnerabilit...
File : macosx_10_9_5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-30 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201408-11.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-07 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20140806_php53_and_php_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-07 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-1012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-07 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2014-1012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-06 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2014-1012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-209.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-28 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-313.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-28 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-314.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-18 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2014-304.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-17 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-059.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-3537.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-17 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2014-074-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-14 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-051.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-14 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201403-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-3534.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-07 Name : The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is potentially affected by m...
File : php_5_5_10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-07 Name : The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is potentially affected by m...
File : php_5_4_26.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2126-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-04 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_815dbcf9a2d611e38088002590860428.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-2876.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2868.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-27 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2123-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-2739.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2861.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-03-15 13:21:36
  • Multiple Updates
2014-03-13 21:19:42
  • First insertion