CVE-2014-9426
Status: ModifiedHigh (7.3)—
Severity7.3High · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability2.14 %higher than 82% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
The apprentice_load function in libmagic/apprentice.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP through 5.6.4 attempts to perform a free operation on a stack-based character array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. NOTE: this is disputed by the vendor because the standard erealloc behavior makes the free operation unreachable
CVSS
- Base score
- 7.3
- Version
- 3.1
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 2.14 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 82
- Score date
- 10/21/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-17
References
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- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a72cd07f2983dc43a6bb35209dc4687852e53c09
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef89ab2f99fbd9b7b714556d4f1f50644eb54191
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00079.html
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68665
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a72cd07f2983dc43a6bb35209dc4687852e53c09
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef89ab2f99fbd9b7b714556d4f1f50644eb54191
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00079.html
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68665
Raw JSON (NVD)
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