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Debian: CVE-2014-0236: file -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 16, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

file before 5.18, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a zero root_storage value in a CDF file, related to cdf.c and readcdf.c.

Solution

debian-upgrade-file
Title
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