CVE-2014-3478

Publication date 9 July 2014

Last updated 8 December 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
file 14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1
13.10 saucy
Fixed 5.11-2ubuntu4.3
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.09-2ubuntu0.4
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
php5 14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3
13.10 saucy
Fixed 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2.6
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

php in precise and earlier doesn't look vulnerable file in lucid doesn't look vulnerable

Patch details

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Package Patch details
file
php5

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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