Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-BINUTILSDEBUGSOURCE-1940333
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed31 Dec 2018

Introduced: 31 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20623  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

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

In GNU Binutils 2.31.1, there is a use-after-free in the error function in elfcomm.c when called from the process_archive function in readelf.c via a crafted ELF file.