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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T18:01:20.506Z
Reserved: 2014-03-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2013-7345

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2014-03-24T16:31:08.167
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2013-7345
