6.5

CVE-2014-3478: christos_zoulas file

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-3478DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3478
Published 09-07-2014Last modified 04-12-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-3478 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in christos_zoulas file. EPSS estimates a 15.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
15.18%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 13 · Related 3
DLA-27-1DSA-2974-1DSA-3021-1MGASA-2014-0282MGASA-2014-0283MGASA-2014-0284

Timeline

  1. 09-07-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

15.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

97%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 15.18% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    File

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu2 products
  • file< 1:5.14-2ubuntu3.1
  • php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.3
Christos_zoulas1 product
  • file≤ 5.18 | 5.00 | 5.01 | 5.02 | 5.03 | 5.04 | 5.05 | 5.06 | 5.07 | 5.08 | 5.09 | 5.10 | 5.11 | 5.12 | 5.13 | 5.14 | 5.15 | 5.16 | 5.17
Debian1 product
  • file< 1:5.19-1
Php1 product
  • phpEOL≤ 5.4.29 | 5.4.0 | 5.4.1 | 5.4.2 | 5.4.3 | 5.4.4 | 5.4.5 | 5.4.6 | 5.4.7 | 5.4.8 | 5.4.9 | 5.4.10 | 5.4.11 | 5.4.12 | 5.4.12:rc1 | 5.4.12:rc2 | 5.4.13 | 5.4.13:rc1 | 5.4.14 | 5.4.14:rc1 | 5.4.15:rc1 | 5.4.16:rc1 | 5.4.17 | 5.4.18 | 5.4.19 | 5.4.20 | 5.4.21 | 5.4.22 | 5.4.23 | 5.4.24 | 5.4.25 | 5.4.26 | 5.4.27 | 5.4.28 | 5.5.0 | 5.5.0:alpha1 | 5.5.0:alpha2 | 5.5.0:alpha3 | 5.5.0:alpha4 | 5.5.0:alpha5 | 5.5.0:alpha6 | 5.5.0:beta1 | 5.5.0:beta2 | 5.5.0:beta3 | 5.5.0:beta4 | 5.5.0:rc1 | 5.5.0:rc2 | 5.5.1 | 5.5.2 | 5.5.3 | 5.5.4 | 5.5.5 | 5.5.6 | 5.5.7 | 5.5.8 | 5.5.9 | 5.5.10 | 5.5.11 | 5.5.12 | 5.5.13

4 vendors · 5 products

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