Arch Linux ASA-201410-11 Medium: Ctags DoS Risk Identified

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201410-11
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2014-10-24
CVE-ID  : CVE-2014-7204
Package : ctags
Type    : Denial of service
Remote  : No
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE-2014

Summary
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The package ctags before version 5.8-5 is vulnerable to denial of service.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 5.8-5.

# pacman -Syu "ctags>=5.8-5"

The problem has been fixed upstream [0] but no release version is
available yet.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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Stefano Zacchiroli discovered a vulnerability in 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.

Impact
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A local user can run out of disk space resulting in denial of service
after running ctags on JavaScript files from an affected or specially
prepared public repository.

References
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[0] 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7204
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42246
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/29/40