Security Information / 2014 / Security Information -- DSA-3042-1 exuberant-ctags

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3042-1 exuberant-ctags -- security update

Date Reported:

04 Oct 2014

Affected Packages:

exuberant-ctags

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-7204.

More information:

Stefano Zacchiroli discovered a vulnerability in exuberant-ctags, a tool to build tag file indexes of source code definitions: Certain JavaScript files cause ctags to enter an infinite loop until it runs out of disk space, resulting in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.9~svn20110310-4+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.9~svn20110310-8.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:5.9~svn20110310-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your exuberant-ctags packages.