CVE-2014-8484 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8484?

CVE-2014-8484 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The srec_scan function in bfd/srec.c in libdbfd in GNU binutils before 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a small S-record.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8484?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnu Binutils.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8484?

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-2014-8484 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8484 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8484, ECHO-82f4-0a42-6033, GHSA-4xrc-9849-6cr3, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8484.