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.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8485 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.
| Base Score | 6.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (binutils) | RHSA-2015:2079 | 2015-11-19 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | mingw32-binutils | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | binutils | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | binutils220 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | binutils | Will not fix |
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