Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils package, versions <2.39-r2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-BINUTILS-5846559
  • published21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed26 Aug 2022

Introduced: 26 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-38533  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard binutils to version 2.39-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1