CVE-2014-8503
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ihex_scan function in bfd/ihex.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly have other unspecified
02 Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ihex_scan function in bfd/ihex.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly have other unspecified
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-12-09 22:52Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:18Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-10-28
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- cf852ef98162043edb47df07b804b037d37537cfb6644c8bb05132f34e29b6c4
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com62241http://secunia.com/advisories/62241
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2015:029http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2496-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162607
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2014-14995http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17512
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2014-17603http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2014-14963http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-0471http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html
- secunia.com62746http://secunia.com/advisories/62746
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20141031 Re: strings / libbfd crasherhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2014-14838http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html
- sourceware.orghttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0102ea8cec5fc509bba6c91df61b7ce23a799d32
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2014-17586http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html
- www.securityfocus.com70868http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70868
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201612-24https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- binutils Fixed in 2.24.90.20141104-1
- binutils-mingw-w64 Fixed in 5.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- binutils Fixed in 2.24.90.20141104-1
- binutils-mingw-w64 Fixed in 5.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- binutils Fixed in 2.24.90.20141104-1
- binutils-mingw-w64 Fixed in 5.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- binutils Fixed in 2.24-5ubuntu3.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.