CVE-2014-7204
jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file.
02 Description
jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.82% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-10-07 14:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 12:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-09-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d2f70836d8c7bca5afe8e5f54127df7a7b87e29ab4c5b55f1cfdcc5ec23510ab
05 Affected products
06 References
- advisories.mageia.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2371-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2371-1
- www.debian.orgDSA-3042http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3042
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742605
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:178http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:178
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20140929 CVE request: exuberant-ctags: CPU/disk DoS on minified JavaScript filehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/40
- sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/791/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- exuberant-ctags Fixed in 1:5.9~svn20110310-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- exuberant-ctags Fixed in 1:5.9~svn20110310-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- exuberant-ctags Fixed in 1:5.9~svn20110310-8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- exuberant-ctags Fixed in 1:5.9~svn20110310-7ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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