CVE-2014-9653: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

readelf.c in file before 5.22, 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 consider that pread calls sometimes read only a subset of the available data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• File Project File: up to and including 5.21
• 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.