Bug 1162570 (CVE-2014-8501)
| Summary: | CVE-2014-8501 binutils: out-of-bounds write when parsing specially crafted PE executable | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | dan, dhowells, erik-fedora, fedora-mingw, jakub, jgalipea, kalevlember, kanderso, law, lkundrak, mhlavink, mnewsome, mprchlik, nickc, nobody+bgollahe, ohudlick, pfrankli, rjones, rob, swhiteho, thibault.north, trond.danielsen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | binutils 2.25 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way various binutils utilities processed certain files. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, it could cause the utility used to process that file to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that utility.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:35:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1162574, 1162575, 1162576, 1162577, 1162578, 1162580, 1162581, 1162582, 1162583, 1168281, 1168302, 1172710 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1156276, 1210268 | ||
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Description
Vasyl Kaigorodov
2014-11-11 11:05:58 UTC
Created mingw-binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1162578] Affects: epel-all [bug 1162583] Created avr-binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1162575] Affects: epel-all [bug 1162581] Created arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1162574] Created msp430-binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1162580] Created cross-binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1162577] Affects: epel-all [bug 1162582] Created binutils tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1162576] Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs-2014.05.28-3.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. avr-binutils-2.24-3.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. avr-binutils-2.24-4.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs-2014.05.28-3.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. avr-binutils-2.24-3.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs-2014.05.28-3.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Hi Guys, The recently uploaded patch for BZ 1162594 also fixes this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1043575&action=diff Cheers Nick This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:2079 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2079.html |