CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8501
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The _bfd_XXi_swap_aouthdr_in function in bfd/peXXigen.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) and possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted NumberOfRvaAndSizes field in the AOUT header in a PE executable.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils (<= 2.24)
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• fedoraproject fedora 19
• fedoraproject fedora 20
• fedoraproject fedora 21
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62241 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62746 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70866 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162570 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17512 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e1e19887abd24aeb15066b141cdff5541e0ec8e sourceware.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62241 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62746 secunia.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70866 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162570 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17512 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e1e19887abd24aeb15066b141cdff5541e0ec8e sourceware.org