CVE-2014-1943

Public on 2014-02-18
Modified on 2014-09-18
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension handled indirect rules. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to crash or consume an excessive amount of CPU.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 file 2014-03-13 ALAS-2014-304 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php54 2014-03-24 ALAS-2014-313 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php55 2014-03-24 ALAS-2014-314 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