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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade php | Aug 30, 2017 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Apple Osx Apachemodphp | — | Upgrade macOS to the latest version | Sep 22, 2014 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Apple Osx Note | — | Apply OS X security update 2014-004Upgrade macOS to the latest version | Aug 28, 2015 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade php-fpmUpgrade php-cliUpgrade phpUpgrade php-xmlrpcUpgrade php-mbstringUpgrade php-xmlUpgrade php-mysqlndUpgrade php-commonUpgrade php-develUpgrade php-recodeUpgrade php-ldapUpgrade php-snmpUpgrade php-processUpgrade php-pspellUpgrade php-gdUpgrade php-dbaUpgrade php-pdoUpgrade php-bcmathUpgrade php-soapUpgrade php-intlUpgrade php-enchantUpgrade php-embeddedUpgrade php-mysqlUpgrade php-odbcUpgrade php-pgsql | Dec 1, 2016 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade fileUpgrade php5 | Jul 30, 2024 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade FreeBSD | Dec 10, 2025 | Aug 11, 2016 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-lang/php.Upgrade sys-apps/file. | Oct 30, 2017 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade php-pspellUpgrade php-soapUpgrade php-enchantUpgrade php-snmpUpgrade php-gdUpgrade php-xmlrpcUpgrade php-processUpgrade php-embeddedUpgrade php-xmlUpgrade php-mysqlndUpgrade php-dbaUpgrade php-mysqlUpgrade php-cliUpgrade php-mbstringUpgrade php-recodeUpgrade php-pdoUpgrade php-commonUpgrade php-bcmathUpgrade php-odbcUpgrade php-fpmUpgrade phpUpgrade php-intlUpgrade php-ldapUpgrade php-develUpgrade php-pgsql | Oct 16, 2024 | Mar 23, 2014 |
| Php | — | Upgrade to PHP version 5.5.11Upgrade to PHP version 5.4.27 | Nov 14, 2022 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libmagic1Upgrade libmagic-dataUpgrade fileUpgrade file-develUpgrade libmagic1-32bitUpgrade python-magic | Apr 7, 2014 | Mar 24, 2014 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade fileUpgrade libmagic1 | Nov 8, 2024 | Mar 24, 2014 |
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