Denial of Service Vulnerability in File and libmagic with Crafted CDF File

CVE-2012-1571 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

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