Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting binutils package, versions <2.40-2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-BINUTILS-5853701
  • published24 Aug 2023
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2022-48064  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 binutils to version 2.40-2 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

CVSS Scores

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