CVE-2012-1571 (GCVE-0-2012-1571)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-07-17 21:00
Modified
2025-12-04 20:31
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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