CVE-2014-8116 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8116?

CVE-2014-8116 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ELF parser (readelf.c) in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a large number of (1) program or (2) section headers or (3) invalid capabilities.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8116?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, File Project File, Freebsd Freebsd, Mageia Mageia.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8116?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-8116 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8116 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8116, GHSA-633g-rmvw-w6m6, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8116.