Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-BINUTILSDEVEL-5857559
  • published24 Aug 2023
  • disclosed21 Dec 2022

Introduced: 21 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-48063  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel package and not the binutils-devel package as distributed by Centos.

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.