Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 9, 2014· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2014-3478
CVE-2014-3478
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.
Affected products
1- osv-coordsRange: < 5.3.17-47.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
19- bugs.php.net/bug.phpnvdPatch
- github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08nvdExploitPatch
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.htmlnvd
- marc.infonvd
- mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59794nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59831nvd
- support.apple.com/kb/HT6443nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021nvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.htmlnvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.htmlnvd
- www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/68239nvd
- support.apple.com/HT204659nvd
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