Out-of-Bounds Affecting binutils package, versions [,2.25)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.63% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-2368486
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Jan 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-8738  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.25 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The _bfd_slurp_extended_name_table function in bfd/archive.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write, segmentation fault, and crash) via a crafted extended name table in an archive.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1