CVE-2014-0238

Public on 2014-06-01
Modified on 2014-09-19
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension parsed certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 file 2014-07-23 ALAS-2014-382 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php 2014-08-21 ALAS-2014-393 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php54 2014-06-15 ALAS-2014-361 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php55 2014-06-15 ALAS-2014-362 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P