File vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
File is made by File Project. We track 18 published vulnerabilities in it, across 85 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run File, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of File's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which File flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 15%CVE-2014-3479Medium
The cdf_check_stream_offset function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, relies on incorrect sector-size data, which allows remote attackers...
- 15%CVE-2014-3487Medium
The cdf_read_property_info function in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, does not properly validate a stream offset, which allows remote attackers to...
- 11%CVE-2014-3480Medium
The cdf_count_chain function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, does not properly validate sector-count data, which allows remote attackers...
- 5.9%CVE-2014-8117Medium
softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via unspecified vectors.
- 5.5%CVE-2014-9652Medium
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...
- 4.7%CVE-2014-9620Medium
The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes.
- 4.6%CVE-2014-9653High
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...
- 4.4%CVE-2014-8116Medium
The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities.
- 4.3%CVE-2014-2270Medium
softmagic.c in file before 5.17 and libmagic allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and crash) via crafted offsets in the softmagic of a PE executable.
- 3.5%CVE-2019-8907High
do_core_note in readelf.c in libmagic.a in file 5.35 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
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The cdf_check_stream_offset function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, relies on incorrect sector-size data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted stream offset in a CDF file.
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We track 18 published vulnerabilities listed under the name File, across 85 versions.
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