CVE-2014-3480 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3480?

CVE-2014-3480 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Jul 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The cdf_count_chain function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, does not properly validate sector-count data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted CDF file.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3480?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, File Project File, Opensuse Opensuse, Oracle Linux, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3480?

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-2014-3480 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3480 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-2014-3480, GHSA-vm23-73fg-gcq2, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3480.