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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Christos Zoulas File up to 5.21. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-9620. There is no available exploit. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Christos Zoulas File up to 5.21. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes.

The weakness was presented 01/16/2015 by Alexander Cherepanov (Website). The advisory is available at mx.gw.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-9620 since 01/17/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 82046 (Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2015-497)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 236004 (Red Hat Update for file (RHSA-2016:0760)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (100258), Tenable (82046) and SecurityFocus (BID 71715†). See VDB-67398, VDB-67724, VDB-68081 and VDB-68414 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Christos Zoulas

Name

• File

Version

• 5.08
• 5.09
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21

License

• open-source

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.6

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.6
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Unproven

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Nessus ID: 82046
Nessus Name: Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2015-497)
Nessus File: 🔍
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OpenVAS ID: 703121
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3121-1 (file - security update)
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: github.com

Timelineinfo

12/17/2014 🔍
01/16/2015 +30 days 🔍
01/17/2015 +1 days 🔍
01/21/2015 +4 days 🔍
02/02/2015 +12 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +49 days 🔍
03/25/2015 +2 days 🔍
03/08/2022 +2540 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ce90e05774dd77d86cfc8dfa6da57b32816841c4
Researcher: Alexander Cherepanov
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2014-9620 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-9620
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-68978
X-Force: 100258 - File src/readelf.c denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 71715 - file 'src/readelf.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 02/02/2015 09:47
Updated: 03/08/2022 08:22
Changes: 02/02/2015 09:47 (69), 03/09/2019 08:35 (5), 03/08/2022 08:18 (3), 03/08/2022 08:22 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:3C6:103

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