CVE-2022-48063

medium

Description

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function load_separate_debug_files at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

References

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-50777

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-22

Updated: 2026-06-17

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