CVE-2014-8737

Public on 2014-12-09
Modified on 2015-12-13
Description
A directory traversal flaw was found in the strip and objcopy utilities. A specially crafted file could cause strip or objdump to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the user running either of these utilities.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.1
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 binutils 2015-12-14 ALAS-2015-620 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P