Fedora 21 : avr-binutils-2.24-4.fc21 (2014-14995)
High Nessus Plugin ID 79766
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
- fix directory traversal vulnerability
- fix CVE-2014-8501: out-of-bounds write when parsing specially crafted PE executable
- fix CVE-2014-8502: heap overflow in objdump
- fix CVE-2014-8503: stack overflow in objdump when parsing specially crafted ihex file
- fix CVE-2014-8504: stack overflow in the SREC parser
- fix out of bounds memory write
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected avr-binutils package.