{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3538 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2014-3538 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Jul 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2014-3538 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2014-3538 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 3 Jul 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3538 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3538/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3538/index.md)","id":"CVE-2014-3538","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3538/index.md","name":"CVE-2014-3538","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3538","GHSA-p2f8-8pr7-gprp","MGASA-2014-0307","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3538"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU file utility","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause denial of service via CPU consumption by submitting crafted files to the file utility, affecting Linux distributions.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"file","vendor":"christos_zoulas"},{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"php","vendor":"php"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-399","name":null}],"description":"file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule.  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