CVE-2014-8503: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ihex_scan function in bfd/ihex.c in GNU binutils 2.24 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted ihex file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 19 only; version 20 only; version 21 only
• GNU Binutils: up to and including 2.24

Published 2014-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.