CVE-2012-1571

moderate-risk

Published 2012-07-17

file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

Do I need to act?

0.43% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

File

Libmagic

Affected Vendors

Christos Zoulas Tim Robbins

References (12)

Patch http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:035

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1

Exploit https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295

Exploit https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b

Patch http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2012/000914.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2422

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:035

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2123-1

Exploit https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1859fdb4e67c49c463c4e0078054335cd46ba295

Exploit https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/1aec04dbf8a24b8a6ba64c4f74efa0628e36db0b

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal

Exposure 7/34 · Low