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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2014-9939

critical

CVE-2014-9939

binutils: buffer overflow in ihex.c

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat1.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (low), Ubuntu (low).

Description

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

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 3.0crash8.0.2-1.ph3
Photon OS 4.0crash, crash-devel8.0.2-1.ph4
debian 11binutils, gdb2.25.90.20151125-1 and 1 more
debian 12binutils, gdb2.25.90.20151125-1 and 1 more
debian 13binutils, gdb2.25.90.20151125-1 and 1 more
debian 14binutils, gdb2.25.90.20151125-1 and 1 more
debian 7binutils2.22-8+deb7u3
debian 8binutilsno fix listed
echobinutils, gdb2.25.90.20151125-1 and 1 more
Red Hatbinutils, binutils-develno fix listed
root.io debian 12rootio-binutils2.25.90.20151125-1
ubuntu 14.04gdb7.7.1-0ubuntu5~14.04.3
Show all 19 entries from 12 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
Photon OS 3.0crash8.0.2-1.ph3
Photon OS 4.0crash8.0.2-1.ph4
Photon OS 4.0crash-devel8.0.2-1.ph4
debian 11binutils2.25.90.20151125-1
debian 11gdb7.10-1
debian 12binutils2.25.90.20151125-1
debian 12gdb7.10-1
debian 13binutils2.25.90.20151125-1
debian 13gdb7.10-1
debian 14binutils2.25.90.20151125-1
debian 14gdb7.10-1
debian 7binutils2.22-8+deb7u3
debian 8binutilsno fix listed
echobinutils2.25.90.20151125-1
echogdb7.10-1
Red Hatbinutilsno fix listed
Red Hatbinutils-develno fix listed
root.io debian 12rootio-binutils2.25.90.20151125-1
ubuntu 14.04gdb7.7.1-0ubuntu5~14.04.3

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.