CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
96.1%
The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line feed characters, which is not well handled by OS/2 REXX regular expressions that use wildcards, as originally reported for AMaViS.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | file | < 4.20-6 | file_4.20-6_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | file | < 4.20-6 | file_4.20-6_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | file | < 4.20-6 | file_4.20-6_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | file | < 4.20-6 | file_4.20-6_all.deb |