CVE-2014-8117
softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.
02 Description
softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.
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
- 5.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.0% 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
- 2014-12-17 19:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-10-10
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- 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
- 8eb04bc49213762d10fc2652dbb0c9e779eeb5063d93c8bd0d781410ffc9dccd
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2535-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2535-1
- www.securityfocus.com71692http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71692
- secunia.com61944http://secunia.com/advisories/61944
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- www.freebsd.orgFreeBSD-SA-14:28https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0760http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0760.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2494-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2494-1
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c
- www.securitytracker.com1031344http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031344
- secunia.com62081http://secunia.com/advisories/62081
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20141216 file(1): multiple denial of service issues (resource consumption), CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1056
- advisories.mageia.orghttp://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- file Fixed in 1:5.21+15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- file Fixed in 1:5.21+15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- file Fixed in 1:5.21+15-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- file Fixed in 1:5.14-2ubuntu3.3
- php5 Fixed in 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.