CVE-2022-48064

medium

Description

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

References

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NSUNHSOWWLLNGHRM5TUBNCJHEYHPDX2M/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KGSKF4GH7425S6XFDQMWTJGD5U47BAZN/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3XKYUAIORNQ32IZUOZFURECZKEXOHX7Z/

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8f2c64de86bc3d7556121fe296dd679000283931

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-22

Updated: 2023-11-07

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:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H