Vulnerability in Christos Zoulas File
CVE-2013-7345
The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.
EPSS: 0.030 (86.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Christos_zoulas File
- Php
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-7345?
- CVE-2013-7345 is a vulnerability in Christos Zoulas File. Published 2014-03-24.
- Is CVE-2013-7345 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.