FKIE_CVE-2012-1571

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-07-17 21:55 - Updated: 2025-12-04 21:16
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.htmlPatch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:035
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295Exploit, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0bExploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.htmlPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:035
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0bExploit, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
christos_zoulas file *
tim_robbins libmagic *
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  "lastModified": "2025-12-04T21:16:03.980",
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