CVE-2013-7345
EPSS 1.1%php5 - security update
Published: 3/24/2014Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7345
Description
The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/filefrom 0, < 1:5.17-0.1
- Debian/filefrom 0, < 5.04-5+squeeze4
- Debian/php5from 0, < 5.4.34-0+deb7u1