Path traversal in Binutils - CVE-2014-8737

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Path traversal in Binutils - CVE-2014-8737

Published: December 10, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32473
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8737
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.

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.


Affected software

Binutils
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
binutils (Alpine package)
avr-binutils
binutils
arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs

How to mitigate CVE-2014-8737

Install update from vendor's website.

binutils (Alpine package) - update to 2.24-r3
avr-binutils - update to 2.24-4.fc21
binutils - update to 2.24-30.fc21
arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs - update to 2014.05.28-3.fc21

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