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CVE-2014-2270

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-2270 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the 'file' utility (before version 5.17) and libmagic, impacting products like Canonical, Debian, openSUSE, and PHP. An attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds memory access and crash by providing a crafted PE executable with malicious offsets in its softmagic. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and partial availability impact, but no active exploits, public exploit code, or significant community discussion have been observed.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0432 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (13)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php-0:5.3.3-27.el6_5.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: file-0:5.04-21.el6
View patch
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
View patch
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
View patch
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
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php53-0:5.3.3-23.el5_10
View patch
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
View patch
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
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: file
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php55-php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: rpm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: cdrtools

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-2270Moderate

file: out-of-bounds access in search rules with offsets from input file

Dec 20, 2013

References

bugs.gw.com / view.php
Broken LinkPatch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00034.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00037.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00084.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q1/473
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q1/504
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q1/505
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / file/file/commit/447558595a3650db2886cd2f416ad0beba965801
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-08
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT6443
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2873
Third Party Advisory
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
Release NotesVendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2162-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2163-1
Third Party Advisory