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CVE-2014-9939 (GCVE-0-2014-9939)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-21 06:21 – Updated: 2024-08-06 14:02

Summary

ihex.c in GNU Binutils before 2.26 contains a stack buffer overflow when printing bad bytes in Intel Hex objects.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18750	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/31/6	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2017-03-21 00:00

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SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2018-10-18 12:51 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:58

Summary

Security update for binutils

Severity

Moderate

Scope

52 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2014-9939.

CVE-2014-9939

9.8 (Critical)


                
                  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Recommended: 2 products

Open the full advisory

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9939 (CVE-2014-9939)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2017-03-21 00:00 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:37 – Source website

Details

ihex.c in GNU Binutils before 2.26 contains a stack buffer overflow when printing bad bytes in Intel Hex objects.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      negligible

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9939	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/31/6	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3367-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9939	REPORT

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}

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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CVE-2014-9939 (GCVE-0-2014-9939)

SUSE-SU-2018:3207-2

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9939 (CVE-2014-9939)

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