[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: avr-binutils-2.24-4.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14995
2014-11-13 17:06:02
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Name        : avr-binutils
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.24
Release     : 4.fc21
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
Summary     : Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at avr
Description :
This is a Cross Compiling version of GNU binutils, which can be used to
assemble and link binaries for the avr platform, instead of for the
native arm platform.

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Update Information:

- fix directory traversal vulnerability
- fix CVE-2014-8501: out-of-bounds write when parsing specially crafted PE executable
- fix CVE-2014-8502: heap overflow in objdump
- fix CVE-2014-8503: stack overflow in objdump when parsing specially crafted ihex file
- fix CVE-2014-8504: stack overflow in the SREC parser
- fix out of bounds memory write
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 13 2014 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 1:2.24-4
- fix CVE-2014-8738: out of bounds memory write
* Wed Nov 12 2014 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 1:2.24-3
- fix directory traversal vulnerability (#1162657)
- fix CVE-2014-8501: out-of-bounds write when parsing specially crafted PE executable
- fix CVE-2014-8502: heap overflow in objdump
- fix CVE-2014-8503: stack overflow in objdump when parsing specially crafted ihex file
- fix CVE-2014-8504: stack overflow in the SREC parser
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1162655 - CVE-2014-8737 binutils: directory traversal vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162655
  [ 2 ] Bug #1162594 - CVE-2014-8502 binutils: heap overflow in objdump when parsing a crafted ELF/PE binary file (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8485)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162594
  [ 3 ] Bug #1162570 - CVE-2014-8501 binutils: out-of-bounds write when parsing specially crafted PE executable
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162570
  [ 4 ] Bug #1162621 - CVE-2014-8504 binutils: stack overflow in the SREC parser
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162621
  [ 5 ] Bug #1162666 - CVE-2014-8738 binutils: out of bounds memory write
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162666
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update avr-binutils' at the command line.
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