CVE-2012-1571 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the 'file' utility and 'libmagic' library, specifically versions before 5.11. An attacker can trigger a crash by providing a specially crafted Composite Document File (CDF) that causes either an out-of-bounds read or an invalid pointer dereference. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires user interaction to open the malicious file, leading to high availability impact but no confidentiality or integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:christos_zoulas:file:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tim_robbins:libmagic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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