CVE-2014-8501

NameCVE-2014-8501
DescriptionThe _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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-184-1, DSA-3123-1, DSA-3123-2

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
binutils (PTS)buster2.31.1-16fixed
bullseye2.35.2-2fixed
bookworm2.40-2fixed
sid, trixie2.42-4fixed
binutils-mingw-w64 (PTS)buster8.3fixed
bullseye8.11fixed
bookworm10.4fixed
trixie11.4fixed
sid11.5fixed
gdb (PTS)buster8.2.1-2vulnerable (unimportant)
bullseye10.1-1.7vulnerable (unimportant)
bookworm13.1-3vulnerable (unimportant)
sid, trixie13.2-1vulnerable (unimportant)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
binutilssourcesqueeze2.20.1-16+deb6u1DLA-184-1
binutilssourcewheezy2.22-8+deb7u2DSA-3123-1
binutilssource(unstable)2.24.90.20141104-1
binutils-mingw-w64sourcewheezy2+deb7u1DSA-3123-2
binutils-mingw-w64source(unstable)5.2
gdbsource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7e1e19887abd24aeb15066b141cdff5541e0ec8e

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