Untrusted Pointer Dereference Affecting devtoolset-2-binutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.49% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-DEVTOOLSET2BINUTILS-9856644
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed24 Oct 2014

Introduced: 24 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-8485  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-822  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 devtoolset-2-binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream devtoolset-2-binutils package and not the devtoolset-2-binutils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1