CVE-2014-3478

medium
Published 2014-07-09 · Modified 2026-05-06
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
5.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

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-2014-3478

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:5.19-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:5.19-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:5.19-1
debian debiansidfixed1:5.19-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:5.19-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp5.5.4
christos_zoulasfile{"endIncluding":"5.18"}
christos_zoulasfile5.00
christos_zoulasfile5.01
christos_zoulasfile5.02
christos_zoulasfile5.03
christos_zoulasfile5.04
christos_zoulasfile5.05
christos_zoulasfile5.06
christos_zoulasfile5.07
christos_zoulasfile5.08
christos_zoulasfile5.09
christos_zoulasfile5.10
christos_zoulasfile5.11
christos_zoulasfile5.12
christos_zoulasfile5.13
christos_zoulasfile5.14
christos_zoulasfile5.15
christos_zoulasfile5.16
christos_zoulasfile5.17
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.4.29"}
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
php phpphp5.4.16
php phpphp5.4.17
php phpphp5.4.18
php phpphp5.4.19
php phpphp5.4.20
php phpphp5.4.21
php phpphp5.4.22
php phpphp5.4.23
php phpphp5.4.24
php phpphp5.4.25
php phpphp5.4.26
php phpphp5.4.27
php phpphp5.4.28
php phpphp5.5.0
php phpphp5.5.1
php phpphp5.5.2
php phpphp5.5.3
php phpphp5.5.5
php phpphp5.5.6
php phpphp5.5.7
php phpphp5.5.8
php phpphp5.5.9
php phpphp5.5.10
php phpphp5.5.11
php phpphp5.5.12
php phpphp5.5.13

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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