CVE-2014-8738 Information

Description

The _bfd_slurp_extended_name_table function in bfd/archive.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write segmentation fault and crash) via a crafted extended name table in an archive.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148438.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62241 http://secunia.com/advisories/62746 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3123 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:029 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/02/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/05/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/2 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71083 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2496-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17533 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=bb0d867169d7e9743d229804106a8fbcab7f3b3f