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<glsa id="201612-24">
  <title>Binutils: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Binutils, the worst of which
    may allow execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">binutils</product>
  <announced>2016-12-08</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-12-08</revised>
  <bug>526626</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-devel/binutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.25</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.25</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>The GNU Binutils are a collection of tools to create, modify and analyse
      binary files. Many of the files use BFD, the Binary File Descriptor
      library, to do low-level manipulation.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Binutils. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted file,
      possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of
      the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or overwrite arbitrary
      files.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Binutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-devel/binutils-2.25"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8484">CVE-2014-8484</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8485">CVE-2014-8485</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8501">CVE-2014-8501</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8502">CVE-2014-8502</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8503">CVE-2014-8503</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8504">CVE-2014-8504</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8737">CVE-2014-8737</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8738">CVE-2014-8738</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-25T00:21:44Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-08T13:14:11Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
