CVE-2014-8485
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 7.5%
exploitation probability
7.5%top 6% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lcamtuf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157276http://secunia.com/advisories/62241http://secunia.com/advisories/62746https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17510https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=493a33860c71cac998f1a56d6d87d6faa801fbaahttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/2