PT-2014-8553 · Gnu+5 · Gnu Binutils+5

Published 2014-01-15 · Updated 2017-07-01 · CVE-2014-8484

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU binutils versions prior to 2.25

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an out-of-bounds read, by providing a small S-record. This is due to a problem in the srec scan function located in bfd/srec.c in libdbfd.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.25, update to version 2.25 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1061

ALT-PU-2016-1015

CESA-2015_2079

CVE-2014-8484

DLA-184-1

DSA-3123-1

DSA-3123-2

ECHO-82F4-0A42-6033

MGASA-2015-0027

RHSA-2015:2079

RHSA-2015_2079

SUSE-SU-2015_0152-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0168-1

USN-2496-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Gnu Binutils

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 41

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8504 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8484 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2496-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8503 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8484 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8738 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3123 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2079.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3123-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24 · Vendor Advisory