A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to
    the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25586)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the TSSA-2025:0013 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2022-38533:
    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.

    CVE-2022-44840:
    Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in     file readelf.c.

    CVE-2022-4285:
    An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt     symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete     fix for CVE-2020-16599.

    CVE-2022-48063:
    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.

    CVE-2022-48065:
    GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function     find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c.

    CVE-2022-35206:
    Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function     read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c.

    CVE-2022-48064:
    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.

    CVE-2022-47695:
    An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c.

    CVE-2022-47010:
    An issue was discovered function pr_function_type in prdbg.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows attackers     to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

    CVE-2022-45703:
    Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in     file readelf.c.

    CVE-2022-47696:
    An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or     other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

    CVE-2022-35205:
    An issue was discovered in Binutils readelf 2.38.50, reachable assertion failure in function     display_debug_names allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

    CVE-2022-47007:
    An issue was discovered function stab_demangle_v3_arg in stabs.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows     attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

    CVE-2023-1972:
    A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may     lead to loss of availability.

    CVE-2022-47008:
    An issue was discovered function make_tempdir, and make_tempname in bucomm.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38,     allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

    CVE-2022-47011:
    An issue was discovered function parse_stab_struct_fields in stabs.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows     attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

    CVE-2023-25584:
    An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the parse_module function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in Binutils.

    CVE-2023-25586:
    A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to     the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service.

    CVE-2023-25585:
    A flaw was found in Binutils. The use of an uninitialized field in the struct module *module may lead to     application crash and local denial of service.

    CVE-2023-25588:
    A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the     `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of     service.

    CVE-2022-47673:
    An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out     of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in Binutils. A logic fail in the bfd_init_section_decompress_status function may lead to     the use of an uninitialized variable that can cause a crash and local denial of service. (CVE-2023-25586)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 943f8915-6c5d-11ef-810a-f8b46a88f42c advisory.

    alster@vinterdalen.se reports PR/281070:
    A new version of devel/binutils has been released fixing                  CVE-2023-1972, CVE-2023-25585, CVE-2023-25586, and                  CVE-2023-25588.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the FreeBSD security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the gdb package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
428088	Bottlerocket: binutils: security update to 2.41	Tenable Cloud Security	Bottlerocket Local Security Checks	medium
428088	Bottlerocket: binutils: security update to 2.41	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Bottlerocket Local Security Checks	medium
238744	TencentOS Server 4: binutils (TSSA-2025:0013)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	high
225910	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-25586	Nessus	Misc.	medium
206744	FreeBSD : binutils -- Multiple vulnerabilities (943f8915-6c5d-11ef-810a-f8b46a88f42c)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
204554	Photon OS 5.0: Gdb PHSA-2023-5.0-0060	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
204288	Photon OS 4.0: Gdb PHSA-2023-4.0-0440	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high

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