Bug 1104858 (CVE-2014-3480) - CVE-2014-3480 file: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check
Summary: CVE-2014-3480 file: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-3480
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1080180 1114446 1114447 1114520 1114521 1119563 1119564 1120503 1120504 1120981 1149768 1149774 1238984 1238985
Blocks: 1065838 1101912 1104859 1149858 1210268
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Reported: 2014-06-04 20:25 UTC by Francisco Alonso
Modified: 2023-05-12 04:15 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension parsed certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-27 11:55:44 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
PHP Bug Tracker 67412 0 None None None Never
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1012 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: php53 and php security update 2014-08-06 09:14:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1013 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: php security update 2014-08-06 10:05:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1606 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: file security and bug fix update 2014-10-14 01:39:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1765 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: php54-php security update 2014-10-30 23:45:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1766 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: php55-php security update 2014-10-30 23:45:12 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2155 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: file security and bug fix update 2015-11-19 08:39:11 UTC

Description Francisco Alonso 2014-06-04 20:25:39 UTC 
A flaw was found in the way file uses cdf_count_chain() function to processes maxsector for certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files. 

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/file/file/commit/40bade80cbe2af1d0b2cd0420cebd5d5905a2382


Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Francisco Alonso of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 2 Remi Collet 2014-06-10 12:26:11 UTC 
PHP commit:
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=40ef6e07e0b2cdced57c506e08cf18f47122292d
Comment 3 Francisco Alonso 2014-06-30 06:18:57 UTC 
Created php tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1114447]
Comment 4 Francisco Alonso 2014-06-30 06:19:00 UTC 
Created file tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1114446]
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-07-05 14:53:40 UTC 
file-5.19-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Murray McAllister 2014-07-08 04:58:31 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the php and the file packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue affects the versions of file as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Comment 14 Martin Prpič 2014-07-28 11:12:19 UTC 
IssueDescription:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension parsed certain Composite Document Format (CDF) files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file.
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2014-08-06 05:15:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1012 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1012.html
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2014-08-06 06:06:01 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:1013 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1013.html
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 08:29:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1606 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1606.html
Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-30 19:46:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1766 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-30 19:47:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1765 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 08:08:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2155 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2155.html
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