9.8
CRITICAL
CVE-2014-9939
GNU Binutils Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description

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

INFO

Published Date :

March 21, 2017, 6:59 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:22 a.m.

Source :

cve@mitre.org

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2014-9939 has a 9 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2014-9939 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Gnu binutils
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

asp-net-core csharp docker dockerfile javascript react webapi docker-compose

C# Dockerfile HTML JavaScript CSS

Updated: 11 months, 4 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 22, 2024, 6:42 p.m. This repo has been linked 383 different CVEs too.

Map Vulnerabilities into Different Layers of the Container Image

Python

Updated: 2 years, 3 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 5, 2022, 12:07 p.m. This repo has been linked 1276 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 2 years, 8 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 3, 2022, 7:11 p.m. This repo has been linked 61 different CVEs too.

API integration to present CVE per image in CVS format

Shell

Updated: 3 years, 7 months ago
2 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : June 18, 2021, 2:35 p.m. This repo has been linked 9 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Makefile Shell Go Smarty Open Policy Agent Mustache

Updated: 4 years, 1 month ago
0 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Feb. 25, 2021, 9:59 a.m. This repo has been linked 61 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Makefile

Updated: 2 years, 7 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 15, 2020, 7:02 p.m. This repo has been linked 61 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Makefile Shell Go Smarty Open Policy Agent

Updated: 4 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 21, 2020, 7:37 a.m. This repo has been linked 61 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Makefile Shell Go Smarty

Updated: 4 years, 10 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 6, 2020, 2:22 a.m. This repo has been linked 54 different CVEs too.

A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers, Suitable for CI for Web

Python HTML CSS JavaScript

Updated: 7 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 2, 2019, 8:26 a.m. This repo has been linked 51 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2014-9939 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2014-9939 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/31/6
    Added Reference https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18750
    Added Reference https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e27a9d5f22f9f7ead11738b1546d0b5c737266b
  • CVE Modified by cve@mitre.org

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by cve@mitre.org

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=7e27a9d5f22f9f7ead11738b1546d0b5c737266b [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7e27a9d5f22f9f7ead11738b1546d0b5c737266b
  • Initial Analysis by nvd@nist.gov

    Mar. 22, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7e27a9d5f22f9f7ead11738b1546d0b5c737266b No Types Assigned https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=7e27a9d5f22f9f7ead11738b1546d0b5c737266b Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/31/6 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/31/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18750 No Types Assigned https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18750 Issue Tracking, Patch
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.40 }} -0.87%

score

0.58019

percentile

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