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CVE-2014-9939

binutils: buffer overflow in ihex.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

1.2

CVSS 2.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · July 31, 2015

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

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

Statement

This issue affects the versions of binutils as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow