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CVE-2014-7204 json

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 cr…

published 2014-10-07 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-7078

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • exuberant-ctags Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:5.9~svn20110310-8

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7204

  • exuberant-ctags Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:5.9~svn20110310-7ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7204

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ctags SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 5.8-7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2097-1

  • ctags openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.8-8.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10296-1

  • ctags Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +16 more 5.8-r5

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2014-7204

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-7204 updated cvss 4.3

ctags: possible denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ctags Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ctags, ctags-etags Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ctags, ctags-etags
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.debian.org https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742605 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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