CVE-2014-0236

file: root_storage NULL pointer deference flaw in CDF parser

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · June 27, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

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 score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified