CVE-2014-3478 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the mconvert function in softmagic.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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted Pascal string in a FILE_PSTRING conversion.

Reference

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