NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Aug 2025
- disclosed19 Oct 2022
Introduced: 19 Oct 2022
CVE-2022-4285 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel package and not the binutils-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4285
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150768
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29699
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70