Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting binutils package, versions <0:2.23.52.0.1-55.el7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.67% (80th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-BINUTILS-2052634
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 28 Oct 2014
Introduced: 28 Oct 2014
CVE-2014-8502 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7
binutils
to version 0:2.23.52.0.1-55.el7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils
package and not the binutils
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
Heap-based buffer overflow in the pe_print_edata function in bfd/peXXigen.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 truncated export table in a PE file.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70869
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162594
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17512
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5a4b0ccc20ba30caef53b01bee2c0aaa5b855339
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8502
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2079
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62241
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62746
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5a4b0ccc20ba30caef53b01bee2c0aaa5b855339