PT-2014-8554 · Gnu+5 · Gnu Binutils+5

Published 2014-01-15 · Updated 2017-07-01 · CVE-2014-8485

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU binutils versions 2.24 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted section group headers in an ELF file.

Recommendations For GNU binutils versions 2.24 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.24 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1061

ALT-PU-2016-1015

CESA-2015_2079

CVE-2014-8485

DLA-184-1

DSA-3123-1

DSA-3123-2

ECHO-0FBF-5E6F-BAD1

MGASA-2015-0027

RHSA-2015:2079

RHSA-2015_2079

USN-2496-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Gnu Binutils

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 41

• 🔥 http://lcamtuf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8485 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8485 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8485 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8504 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8485 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2496-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8503 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8738 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3123 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2079.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8485 · Vendor Advisory