CVE-2014-7204
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-399
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
jscript.c in Exuberant Ctags 5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted JavaScript file.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/791/ ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/791/Patch
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3042Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:178
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/40Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2371-1Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742605Exploit