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CVE-2014-8485

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Date: December 9, 2014

The setup_group function in bfd/elf.c in libbfd in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted section group headers in an ELF file.

Language: C

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Related Resources (20)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=493a33860c71cac998f1a56d6d87d6faa801fbaa
http://secunia.com/advisories/62746
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70741
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157276
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8485
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-8485
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62241
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8485
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17510
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8485
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/2
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-8485

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Code Injection

CWE-94

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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