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CVE-2014-3478

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.

  • Published: Jul 9, 2014
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2014-3478
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
christos_zoulas / file 5.00 5.00.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.04 5.04.x
php / php 5.5.0-alpha1 5.5.0-alpha1.x
php / php 5.5.0-alpha3 5.5.0-alpha3.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.10 5.10.x
php / php 5.4.12-rc1 5.4.12-rc1.x
php / php 5.4.15-rc1 5.4.15-rc1.x
php / php 5.5.0-beta3 5.5.0-beta3.x
php / php 5.4.12 5.4.12.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.07 5.07.x
php / php 5.5.0 5.5.0.x
php / php 5.4.19 5.4.19.x
php / php 5.5.1 5.5.1.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.02 5.02.x
php / php 5.5.5 5.5.5.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.03 5.03.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.11 5.11.x
php / php 5.4.14 5.4.14.x
php / php 5.4.8 5.4.8.x
php / php 5.4.17 5.4.17.x
php / php 5.4.14-rc1 5.4.14-rc1.x
php / php 5.5.7 5.5.7.x
php / php 5.5.0-beta1 5.5.0-beta1.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.16 5.16.x
php / php 5.4.12-rc2 5.4.12-rc2.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.12 5.12.x
php / php 5.4.22 5.4.22.x
php / php 5.4.9 5.4.9.x
php / php 5.4.11 5.4.11.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.17 5.17.x
php / php 5.5.12 5.5.12.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.05 5.05.x
php / php 5.4.10 5.4.10.x
php / php 5.5.6 5.5.6.x
php / php 5.4.2 5.4.2.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.13 5.13.x
php / php 5.5.0-rc1 5.5.0-rc1.x
php / php 5.5.0-beta4 5.5.0-beta4.x
php / php 5.5.3 5.5.3.x
php / php 5.4.27 5.4.27.x
php / php 5.5.8 5.5.8.x
php / php 5.4.16-rc1 5.4.16-rc1.x
php / php 5.4.28 5.4.28.x
php / php 5.4.21 5.4.21.x
christos_zoulas / file - 5.18.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.14 5.14.x
php / php 5.4.5 5.4.5.x
php / php - 5.4.29.x
php / php 5.4.26 5.4.26.x
php / php 5.5.0-alpha6 5.5.0-alpha6.x
php / php 5.5.0-beta2 5.5.0-beta2.x
php / php 5.5.11 5.5.11.x
php / php 5.5.13 5.5.13.x
php / php 5.5.4 5.5.4.x
php / php 5.4.24 5.4.24.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.01 5.01.x
php / php 5.4.23 5.4.23.x
php / php 5.4.6 5.4.6.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.08 5.08.x
php / php 5.4.13 5.4.13.x
php / php 5.5.0-alpha4 5.5.0-alpha4.x
php / php 5.4.0 5.4.0.x
php / php 5.4.3 5.4.3.x
php / php 5.4.18 5.4.18.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.06 5.06.x
php / php 5.5.10 5.5.10.x
php / php 5.5.0-alpha5 5.5.0-alpha5.x
php / php 5.4.1 5.4.1.x
php / php 5.4.13-rc1 5.4.13-rc1.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.15 5.15.x
php / php 5.4.20 5.4.20.x
php / php 5.5.0-alpha2 5.5.0-alpha2.x
christos_zoulas / file 5.09 5.09.x
php / php 5.4.25 5.4.25.x
php / php 5.4.7 5.4.7.x
php / php 5.4.4 5.4.4.x
php / php 5.5.2 5.5.2.x
php / php 5.5.0-rc2 5.5.0-rc2.x
php / php 5.5.9 5.5.9.x