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CVE-2013-7345

Medium
5/10

Summary

The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published