CVE-2014-8501

Description (CNA)

The _bfd_XXi_swap_aouthdr_in function in bfd/peXXigen.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) and possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted NumberOfRvaAndSizes field in the AOUT header in a PE executable.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/62241
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029
• https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e1e19887abd24aeb15066b141cdff5541e0ec8e
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162570
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17512
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70866
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62746
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/3
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24

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