CVE-2013-7345

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.6
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
3.176

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 UpdateMac
Multiple vulnerabilities are fixed in OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Update (Combo)Mac
Tool to determine file types (USN-2278-1) file_5.14-2ubuntu3.3_i386.debLinux
Tool to determine file types (USN-2278-1) file_5.14-2ubuntu3.3_amd64.debLinux
Tool to determine file types (USN-2278-1) libmagic1_5.14-2ubuntu3_i386.debLinux
Tool to determine file types (USN-2278-1) libmagic1_5.14-2ubuntu3_amd64.debLinux
Tool to determine file types (USN-2278-1) libmagic1_5.14-2ubuntu3.3_i386.debLinux
Tool to determine file types (USN-2278-1) libmagic1_5.14-2ubuntu3.3_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-600222OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Update
PATCH-600223OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Update (Combo)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234