CVE-2014-3478: Christos Zoulas File

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 15.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Christos Zoulas File: up to and including 5.18; version 5.00 only; version 5.01 only; version 5.02 only; version 5.03 only; version 5.04 only; …
• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.4.29; version 5.4.0 only; version 5.4.1 only; version 5.4.2 only; version 5.4.3 only; version 5.4.4 only; …

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