CVE-2022-38533

medium

Description

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

References

Advisories
More

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/

https://github.com/akaganeite/CVE4PP

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29495

https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-41112

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-08-26

Updated: 2026-06-17

Named Vulnerability: GHSA-7v55-wrg9-5rfp

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H