CVE-2014-8737

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allow local users to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) or full path name in an archive to (1) strip or (2) objcopy or create arbitrary files via (3) a .. (dot dot) or full path name in an archive to ar.

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/145256.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145352.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145746.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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148438.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/2014/11/13/1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

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