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CVE-2014-8485

Public on 2014-12-09
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description

A 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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 binutils 2015-12-14 10:00 ALAS-2015-620

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P