CVE-2014-8738

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 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: 2015-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
GNU Binutils: through 2.24

References

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.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3123
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/02/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/05/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/2
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

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