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CVE-2014-9652

file: out of bounds read in mconvert()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

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

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:P/I:N/A:N

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read