Security Advisory

CVE-2014-3538

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-07-03 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 10:50:16

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.

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