CVE-2013-7345

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=164Broken Link, Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2873Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703993Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/file/file/commit/ef2329cf71acb59204dd981e2c6cce6c81fe467cExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=164Broken Link, Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6443Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2873Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703993Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/file/file/commit/ef2329cf71acb59204dd981e2c6cce6c81fe467cExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 24, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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