Denial of Service Vulnerability in File Before 5.19

CVE-2014-3538 · MEDIUM Severity

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

file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.

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