CVE-2014-9620

file: limit the number of ELF notes processed

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

1.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 3, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension parsed Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted ELF file.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling