CVE-2014-0238 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-0238?

CVE-2014-0238 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 Jun 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The cdf_read_property_info function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.29 and 5.5.x before 5.5.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or out-of-bounds memory access) via a vector that (1) has zero length or (2) is too long.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0238?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0238?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-0238 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0238 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0238, GHSA-9qpg-75cw-6c38, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0238.