CVE-2014-9652: File Project File

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mconvert function in softmagic.c in file before 5.21, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, does not properly handle a certain string-length field during a copy of a truncated version of a Pascal string, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and application crash) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• File Project File: up to and including 5.20
• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.4.36; version 5.5.0 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.5.2 only; version 5.5.3 only; version 5.5.4 only; …

Published 2015-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.