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CVE-2014-9939

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

ihex.c in GNU Binutils before 2.26 contains a stack buffer overflow when printing bad bytes in Intel Hex objects.

Affected products

• GNU Binutils: through 2.25

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/31/6
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18750
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e27a9d5f22f9f7ead11738b1546d0b5c737266b
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/31/6
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18750
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e27a9d5f22f9f7ead11738b1546d0b5c737266b

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