Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)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-3018438
  • published7 Sept 2022
  • disclosed13 Aug 2022

Introduced: 13 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-38533  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (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 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.