The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.
References
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http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=164 | Broken Link Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html | Third Party Advisory |
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443 | Third Party Advisory |
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2873 | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703993 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/file/file/commit/ef2329cf71acb59204dd981e2c6cce6c81fe467c | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2014-03-24 16:31
Updated : 2022-10-31 14:56
NVD link : CVE-2013-7345
Mitre link : CVE-2013-7345
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2013-7345
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
christos_zoulas
- file
php
- php
CWE