CVE-2014-8504

Canonical Ubuntu Linux < 2.24 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the srec_scan function in bfd/srec.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted file.

References (18)

[Patch] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=708d7d0d11f0f2d776171979aa3479e8e12a38a0

[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

[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

[Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/27/4

[Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/27/5

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

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70761

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

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162621

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

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0578

EPSS Percentile 90.4%

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (8)

canonical/ubuntu_linux

gnu/binutils < 2.24

fedoraproject/fedora

Timeline

Published Dec 09, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026