CVE-2012-1571

MEDIUM

Christos Zoulas File < 5.10 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

file before 5.11 and libmagic allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Composite Document File (CDF) file that triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) an invalid pointer dereference.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 45.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-119 CWE-125
Status draft

Affected Products (2)

christos_zoulas/file < 5.10
tim_robbins/libmagic

Timeline

Published Jul 17, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026