CVE-2014-7204

EPSS 2.7%

exuberant-ctags - security update

Published: 10/7/2014Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file.

Affected packages (4)

Alpine/ctagsfrom 0, < 5.8-r5
Debian/exuberant-ctagsfrom 0, < 1:5.9~svn20110310-8
Debian/exuberant-ctagsfrom 0, < 1:5.8-3squeeze2
Debian/exuberant-ctagsfrom 0, < 1:5.9~svn20110310-4+deb7u1

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2014-7204
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7204