CVE-2014-8502

high

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pe_print_edata function in bfd/peXXigen.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly have other unspecified impact via a truncated export table in a PE file.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70869

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1

http://secunia.com/advisories/62241

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5a4b0ccc20ba30caef53b01bee2c0aaa5b855339

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162594

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/62746

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-12-09

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04743