CVE-2014-0236

high

Published 2016-05-16 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

5.0

VIR risk

7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

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-2014-0236

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:5.19-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:5.19-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:5.19-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:5.19-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:5.19-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
php	php	`{"endIncluding":"5.5.35"}`

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f3f22ff5c697aef854ffc1918bce708b37481b0f
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67329
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0236

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