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.
History

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-04T20:26:53.242Z

Reserved: 2014-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-3478

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:43:06.121Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-07-09T11:07:01.587

Modified: 2025-12-04T21:16:05.920

Link: CVE-2014-3478

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-06-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-3478 - Bugzilla