Vulnerability in Mageia
CVE-2014-7204
jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.043 (90.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.043 · newest: 0.043 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mageia — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 14.04
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0
- Debian Exuberant Ctags — versions 5.8
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2371-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3042 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/40 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/791/ (Patch, Issue Tracking)