CVE-2014-8501

GNU Binutils < 2.24 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

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.

References (18)

[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

[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

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

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/3

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1

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

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

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162570

[Exploit, Issue Tracking] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17512

[Patch] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e1e19887abd24aeb15066b141cdff5541e0ec8e

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70866

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

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

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0791

EPSS Percentile 91.9%

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (8)

gnu/binutils < 2.24

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

Timeline

Published Dec 09, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026