What is CVE-2012-1571?

CVE-2012-1571 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Christos Zoulas File, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2012-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2012-1571?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Christos Zoulas File

CVE-2012-1571

file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2012-07-17 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.041 (90.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.041 · newest: 0.041 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422 (vendor-advisory)
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b (Exploit, Patch)
mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.html (mailing-list, Patch)
github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295 (Exploit, Patch)
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-1571?: CVE-2012-1571 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Christos Zoulas File, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2012-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2012-1571?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.