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GHSA-h772-f5rg-qrvv
GHSA-h772-f5rg-qrvv
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 17, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3478 advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html url
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html url
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974 url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html url
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php url
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08 url
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659 url
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2 url
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59794 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59831 url
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443 url
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021 url
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html url
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410 url
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html url
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68239 url