Fedora 21 : avr-binutils-2.24-4.fc21 (2014-14995)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79766

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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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79766

File Name: fedora_2014-14995.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/7/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:avr-binutils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8484, CVE-2014-8485, CVE-2014-8501, CVE-2014-8502, CVE-2014-8503, CVE-2014-8504, CVE-2014-8737, CVE-2014-8738

BID: 70741, 70761, 70866, 70869, 70908, 71083

FEDORA: 2014-14995