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.
References
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http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=164 | Broken Link Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html | Third Party Advisory |
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443 | Third Party Advisory |
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2873 | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703993 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/file/file/commit/ef2329cf71acb59204dd981e2c6cce6c81fe467c | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2014-03-23T15:00:00
Updated: 2014-11-13T13:57:01
Reserved: 2014-03-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2013-7345
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2014-03-24T16:31:08.167
Modified: 2022-10-31T14:56:14.563
Link: CVE-2013-7345
JSON object: View
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