PT-2015-4077 · Gnu+5 · Gnu Binutils+5

Published 2014-01-15 · Updated 2017-07-01 · CVE-2014-8738

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 2.24 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an invalid write, segmentation fault, and crash. This is achieved by exploiting a crafted extended name table in an archive.

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

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1061

ALT-PU-2016-1015

CESA-2015_2079

CVE-2014-8738

DLA-184-1

DSA-3123-1

DSA-3123-2

ECHO-12AE-A3EE-DC62

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://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/2 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/02/4 · Exploit
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148438.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8738 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8504 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8738 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8501 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8738 · Vendor Advisory
• 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
• https://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3123 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2079.html · Vendor Advisory