CVE-2014-1943 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1943?

CVE-2014-1943 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Feb 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Fine Free file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash) via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file.

Weakness: CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1943?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fine Free File Project Fine Free File, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1943?

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-2014-1943 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1943 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1943, DSA-2861-1, GHSA-2r4w-c5qm-vpx8, MGASA-2014-0092.