VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4636

medium
Published 2013-06-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The mget function in libmagic/softmagic.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP 5.4.x before 5.4.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) via an MP3 file that triggers incorrect MIME type detection during access to an finfo object.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp5.4.0
php phpphp5.4.1
php phpphp5.4.2
php phpphp5.4.3
php phpphp5.4.4
php phpphp5.4.5
php phpphp5.4.6
php phpphp5.4.7
php phpphp5.4.8
php phpphp5.4.9
php phpphp5.4.10
php phpphp5.4.11
php phpphp5.4.12
php phpphp5.4.13
php phpphp5.4.14
php phpphp5.4.15

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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