CVE-2014-1943

file: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type rules

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 10, 2014

Updated · November 2, 2026

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.

Statement

This issue did not affect the php packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue did not affect the php packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition