CVE-2014-7204: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Debian Exuberant Ctags: version 5.8 only
• Mageia Mageia: version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only

Published 2014-10-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.