VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3480

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
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The cdf_count_chain function in cdf.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, does not properly validate sector-count data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted CDF file.

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-2014-3480

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/file/file/commit/40bade80cbe2af1d0b2cd0420cebd5d5905a2382

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67412

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

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
suse suse11.4affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
file_projectfile{"endExcluding":"5.19"}5.19
php phpphp{"endExcluding":"5.3.29"}5.3.29

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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