Pointer Relationship Vulnerability in Fileinfo Component of PHP

CVE-2015-4604 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The mget function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly maintain a certain pointer relationship, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted string that is mishandled by a "Python script text executable" rule.

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