CVE-2014-9939

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3367-1

Posted Jul 26, 2017

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3367-1 - Hanno Bock discovered that gdb incorrectly handled certain malformed AOUT headers in PE executables. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause gdb to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that gdb incorrectly handled printing bad bytes in Intel Hex objects. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause gdb to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-8501, CVE-2014-9939, CVE-2016-2226, CVE-2016-4487, CVE-2016-4488, CVE-2016-4489, CVE-2016-4490, CVE-2016-4491, CVE-2016-4492, CVE-2016-4493, CVE-2016-6131

SHA-256 | f3e471479b529fe664751ec43fd5c8ddedf9d518467f07744a2cb8afeec18465

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