CVE-2014-8737
LOW · CVSS 3.6EPSS 1.0%EU EUVD
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allow local users to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) or full path name in an archive to (1) strip or (2) objcopy or create arbitrary files via (3) a .. (dot dot) or full path name in an archive to ar.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (64th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-8569)
- 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-2014-8569 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145256.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145352.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145746.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148438.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62241
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62746
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/1(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70908(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162655(Issue Tracking)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17533(Exploit, Issue Tracking)
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17552(Exploit, Issue Tracking)
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=dd9b91de2149ee81d47f708e7b0bbf57da10ad42
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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