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CVE-2014-8737

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

A directory traversal flaw was found in the strip and objcopy utilities. A specially crafted file could cause strip or objdump to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the user running either of these utilities.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.1
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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 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P