CVE-2013-7345

Medium

Description

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductChristos Zoulas File
PublishedMar 24, 2014
First seenMar 24, 2014

How to fix

Update
  • christos_zoulas file5.15 or later
  • php php5.4.27, 5.5.11 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
christos_zoulas filev < 5.155.15
php php5.4.0 ≤ v < 5.4.27, 5.5.0 ≤ v < 5.5.115.4.27, 5.5.11
debian debian_linux6.0, 7.0, 8.0—

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