CVE-2014-3710 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3710?

CVE-2014-3710 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 Nov 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 donote function in readelf.c in file through 5.20, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP 5.4.34, does not ensure that sufficient note headers are present, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3710?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3710?

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-2014-3710 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3710 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3710, DLA-86-1, DSA-3072-1, DSA-3074-1, GHSA-3rf4-9569-4jw7, MGASA-2014-0439 and 2 more.