CVE-2014-0207: Christos Zoulas File

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 16.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cdf_read_short_sector function in cdf.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 (assertion failure and application exit) via a crafted CDF file.

Affected products

• Christos Zoulas File: before 5.19 (fixed in 5.19)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.4 only
• Oracle Linux: version 7 only
• PHP PHP: before 5.3.29 (fixed in 5.3.29); from 5.4.0, before 5.4.30 (fixed in 5.4.30); from 5.5.0, before 5.5.14 (fixed in 5.5.14)

Published 2014-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.