CVE-2014-8117: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• File Project File: up to and including 5.20
• Freebsd Freebsd: any version
• Mageia Mageia: version 4.0 only

Published 2014-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.