Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting binutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BINUTILS-3315700
  • published8 Feb 2023
  • disclosed12 Dec 2022

Introduced: 12 Dec 2022

CVE-2023-25588  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 binutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in Binutils. The field the_bfd of asymbolstruct is uninitialized in the bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.

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