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CVE-2014-3478
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…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 15.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.2% · top 3.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
19
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1766 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- HPSBUX03102 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2974 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 59794 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [file] 20140612 file-5.19 is now available (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 68239 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2015-04-08-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1327 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1765 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 59831 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1236 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-3487 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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