CVE-2014-9652

Name	CVE-2014-9652
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-145-1, DSA-3121-1, DSA-3126-1

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
	sid, trixie	1:5.45-3	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
file	source	squeeze	(not affected)
file	source	wheezy	5.11-2+deb7u7
file	source	(unstable)	1:5.21+15-1
php5	source	squeeze	5.3.3-7+squeeze24	DLA-145-1
php5	source	wheezy	5.4.36-0+deb7u3
php5	source	(unstable)	5.6.5+dfsg-1

Notes

[squeeze] - file <not-affected> (The code was not vulnerable, confirmed with Valgrind on the test data submitted to upstream)
http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=398
https://github.com/file/file/commit/59e63838913eee47f5c120a6c53d4565af638158
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68735