Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
1.82% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BINUTILS-10075295
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed31 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Dec 2018

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

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. 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.

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