CVE-2014-8737 | Mend Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2014-8737

Published:December 09, 2014

Updated:May 17, 2026

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allow local users to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) or full path name in an archive to (1) strip or (2) objcopy or create arbitrary files via (3) a .. (dot dot) or full path name in an archive to ar.

Related Resources (22)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145352.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/1

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=dd9b91de2149ee81d47f708e7b0bbf57da10ad42

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17533

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70908

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8737

http://secunia.com/advisories/62241

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8737

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147346.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-24

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html