CVE-2014-0236

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-06-27
Bugzilla:
1098209: CVE-2014-0236 file: root_storage NULL pointer deference flaw in CDF parser

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

file before 5.18, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a zero root_storage value in a CDF file, related to cdf.c and readcdf.c.

Find out more about CVE-2014-0236 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of file, php, and php53 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php55-php Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php54-php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 file Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 file Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 rpm Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php53 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 file Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cdrtools Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Francisco Alonso of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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