CVE-2013-7345
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7345
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2013-7345.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2013-7345
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2014-03-24T16:31:08Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:27Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The BEGIN regular expression in the awk script detector in magic/Magdir/commands in file before 5.15 uses multiple wildcards with unlimited repetitions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted ASCII file that triggers a large amount of backtracking, as demonstrated via a file with many newline characters.
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