CVE-2014-8485
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 7.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 7.5% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-8322)
- Published
- December 9, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-8322 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- gnu / binutils
References
- http://lcamtuf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html(Exploit, Press/Media Coverage)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62241(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62746(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/26/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70741
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157276(Broken Link)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17510(Issue Tracking)
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=493a33860c71cac998f1a56d6d87d6faa801fbaa
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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