Binutils 'pexxigen. c' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Binutils 'pexxigen. c' Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
GNU Binutils
Description:
Bugtraq id: 70866
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-8501

GNU BinUtils is a binary tool set used to perform lower-level operations.

Binutils 2.24 and other versions have a Remote DoS vulnerability in the implementation of the PE parser. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause the affected application to crash, resulting in DOS.

<* Source: Michal zarewski (lcamtuf@echelon.pl)
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Vendor patch:

GNU
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.gnu.org

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