{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-12-16T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "file: denial of service issue (resource consumption)",
    "id" : "1174606",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174606"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-400->CWE-674",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A flaw was found in the way the File Information (fileinfo) extension parsed Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to consume an excessive amount of system resources." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Thomas Jarosch (Intra2net AG) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2016-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:0760",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "file-0:5.04-30.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-11-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2155",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "file-0:5.11-31.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "file",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "php",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "php53",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "php",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "php",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "php54-php",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "php55-php",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-php56-php",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8117\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8117" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-8117",
  "csaw" : false
}