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CVE-2014-1943

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-1943 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Fine Free file versions prior to 5.17, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, and PHP. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted file with an indirect offset value in its magic, leading to infinite recursion, high CPU consumption, and a system crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0 and no known public exploits, the vulnerability is not actively exploited, lacks readily available exploit code, and has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fine_free_file_project:fine_free_file:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.4.0, < 5.4.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0507 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php53-0:5.3.3-23.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php-0:5.3.3-27.el6_5.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: file-0:5.04-21.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el7
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php55-php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-1943Moderate

file: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type rules

Feb 10, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00034.html
Mailing ListTool Signature
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00037.html
Mailing ListTool Signature
mx.gw.com / pipermail/file/2014/001327.html
Broken Link
mx.gw.com / pipermail/file/2014/001330.html
Broken Link
mx.gw.com / pipermail/file/2014/001334.html
Broken Link
mx.gw.com / pipermail/file/2014/001337.html
Broken Link
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
Third Party Advisory
github.com / glensc/file/blob/FILE5_17/ChangeLog
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT6443
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2861
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2868
Third Party Advisory
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
Release NotesVendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2123-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2126-1
Third Party Advisory