CVE-2012-1571

medium
Published 2012-07-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1571

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed5.11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.11-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.11-1
debian debiansidfixed5.11-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.11-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
christos_zoulasfile{"endIncluding":"5.10"}
tim_robbinslibmagic

References

CWEs

CWE-119 CWE-125

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.