CVE-2014-8485

Fedora < 2.24 - Code Injection

Title source: rule

Description

The setup_group function in bfd/elf.c in libbfd in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted section group headers in an ELF file.

References (15)

[Exploit, Press/Media Coverage] http://lcamtuf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html

[Third Party Advisory] 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

[Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/62241

[Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/62746

[Broken Link] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/2

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1

[Broken Link] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157276

[Issue Tracking] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17510

[Patch] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=493a33860c71cac998f1a56d6d87d6faa801fbaa

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70741

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24

Scores

EPSS 0.0418

EPSS Percentile 88.5%

Classification

CWE

CWE-94

Status draft

Affected Products (8)

fedoraproject/fedora

canonical/ubuntu_linux

gnu/binutils < 2.24

Timeline

Published Dec 09, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026