CVE-2014-8501

HIGH 7.5CVE-2014-8501 · Published 09/12/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-8501 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting binutils (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.2%, higher than 92.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
binutils gnu	`≤ 2.24`	No fix yet

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

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/62241
secunia.com/advisories/62746
mandriva.com/security/advisories · Broken Link
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/3 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1 · Mailing List
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com/bid/70866
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24
sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi

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