| Name | CVE-2014-1943 |
| Description | Fine Free file before 5.17 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, CPU consumption, and crash) via a crafted indirect offset value in the magic of a file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2861-1, DSA-2868-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 738832, 739012 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| file (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:5.39-3+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:5.44-3 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:5.45-3 | fixed |
| sid | 1:5.46-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2014/001337.html
https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/3c081560c23f20b2985c285338b52c7aae9fdb0f
https://github.com/glensc/file/commit/cc9e74dfeca5265ad725acc926ef0b8d2a18ee70