CVE-2014-9652
file: out of bounds read in mconvert()
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Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · November 11, 2014
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
An ouf-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way the file utility processed certain Pascal strings. A remote attacker could cause an application using the file utility (for example, PHP using the fileinfo module) to crash if it was used to identify the type of the attacker-supplied file.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read