CVE-2014-1943: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Fine Free file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash) via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Fine Free File Project Fine Free File: before 5.17 (fixed in 5.17)
• PHP PHP: from 5.4.0, before 5.4.26 (fixed in 5.4.26); from 5.5.0, before 5.5.10 (fixed in 5.5.10)

Published 2014-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.