CVE-2014-8501

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20, 21
GNU Binutils: through 2.24

References

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
http://secunia.com/advisories/62241
http://secunia.com/advisories/62746
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

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