Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils-gold  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-BINUTILSGOLD-3370571
  • published24 Mar 2023
  • disclosed11 Jan 2023

Introduced: 11 Jan 2023

CVE-2023-1579  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (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-gold package and not the binutils-gold package as distributed by RHEL.

Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64.