CVE-2014-8117 (GCVE-0-2014-8117)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-17 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
14 references
Date Public
2014-12-10 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
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Nomenclature
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