CVE-2014-7204

Name

CVE-2014-7204

Description

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.

NVD Severity

unknown

Other trackers

CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia

Mailing lists

oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq

Exploits

Exploit DB, Metasploit

Forges

GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type	URI
Exploit	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742605
Patch	http://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/791/
Third Party Advisory	http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3042
Mailing List	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/40
Third Party Advisory	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2371-1
Broken Link	http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:178
Third Party Advisory	http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0415.html

Match rules

CPE URI	Source package	Min version	Max version
`cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::lts:::`	ubuntu_linux	== None	== 12.04
`cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::`	ubuntu_linux	== None	== 14.04

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package	Branch	Version	Maintainer	Status
ctags	3.10-main	5.8-r5	Fabian Affolter <fabian@affolter-engineering.ch>	fixed