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CVE-2014-8738

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8738 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU binutils versions 2.24 and earlier, specifically within the _bfd_slurp_extended_name_table function, affecting products like Canonical, Debian, Fedora, and GNU. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for a partial availability impact (crash). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0521 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-2014-8738Low

binutils: out of bounds memory write

Nov 2, 2014

References

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
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148438.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62241
secunia.com / advisories/62746
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-24
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3123
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/02/4
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/05/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/2
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com / bid/71083
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2496-1
Third Party Advisory