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PHP Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2014-3538 - Vulnerability Database
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PHP Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2014-3538

Medium
Reference: CVE-2014-3538
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3538
Title: PHP Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345.