CVE-2014-9274

HIGH 7.5CVE-2014-9274 · Published 09/12/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-9274 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting mageia (mageia project), unrtf (unrtf project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.8%, higher than 93.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mageia mageia_project	`= 4`	No fix yet
unrtf unrtf_project	`≤ 0.21.6`	No fix yet

Description

UnRTF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a file containing the string "{\cb-999999999".

References

advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0533.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147399.html
secunia.com/advisories/62811
debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3158
mandriva.com/security/advisories
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/04/15
securityfocus.com/bid/71430
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-unrtf/2014-11/msg00001.html · Exploit
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-06

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