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CVE-2014-8504

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8504 describes a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the srec_scan function of GNU binutils versions 2.24 and earlier, impacting various distributions including Canonical, Fedora, and Ubuntu. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high severity with a low attack complexity, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a denial of service and potentially achieve further unspecified impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0620 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: binutils-0:2.23.52.0.1-55.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: binutils220
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: binutils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mingw32-binutils

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-8504Low

binutils: stack overflow in the SREC parser

Oct 27, 2014

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145262.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145328.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145742.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147354.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148427.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
secunia.com / advisories/62241
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62746
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-24
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue Tracking
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/27/4
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/27/5
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/10/31/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/70761
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2496-1
Third Party Advisory