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FKIE_CVE-2014-9426

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-12-31 02:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:18
Severity
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
The apprentice_load function in libmagic/apprentice.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP through 5.6.4 attempts to perform a free operation on a stack-based character array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because the standard erealloc behavior makes the free operation unreachable
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a72cd07f2983dc43a6bb35209dc4687852e53c09
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef89ab2f99fbd9b7b714556d4f1f50644eb54191
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00079.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68665Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a72cd07f2983dc43a6bb35209dc4687852e53c09
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef89ab2f99fbd9b7b714556d4f1f50644eb54191
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00079.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68665Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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