CVE-2014-3478
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5EPSS 15.2%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 15.2% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3487)
- Published
- July 9, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3487 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on December 4, 2025.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- christos zoulas / file
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- christos zoulas / file
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- christos zoulas / file
- christos zoulas / file
- christos zoulas / file
- christos zoulas / file
- christos zoulas / file
- christos zoulas / file
- php / php
- php / php
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References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
- http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001553.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59831
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3021
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68239
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67410(Patch)
- https://github.com/file/file/commit/27a14bc7ba285a0a5ebfdb55e54001aa11932b08(Exploit, Patch)
- https://support.apple.com/HT204659
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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