softmagic.c in file before 5.21 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.9% · top 6.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (14)

• USN-2535-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 71692 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 61944 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FreeBSD-SA-14:28 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:0760 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2494-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/file/file/commit/6f737ddfadb596d7d4a993f7ed2141ffd664a81c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1031344 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 62081 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20141216 file(1): multiple denial of service issues (resource consumption), CVE-2014-8116 and CVE-2014-8117 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/file/file/blob/00cef282a902a4a6709bbbbb933ee397768caa38/ChangeLog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2014-8117](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2014-8117.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2014-8117)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 13:10 UTC.