CVE-2014-3538

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3538
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2014-3538.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2014-3538
Downstream
Related
Published
2014-07-03T14:55:07Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Summary
[none]
Details

file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.

References

Affected packages