Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mingw-binutils-generic (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published16 Apr 2025
- disclosed11 Jan 2023
Introduced: 11 Jan 2023
CVE-2023-1579 (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 mingw-binutils-generic package and not the mingw-binutils-generic package as distributed by RHEL.
Heap based buffer overflow in binutils-gdb/bfd/libbfd.c in bfd_getl64.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1579
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=11d171f1910b508a81d21faa087ad1af573407d8
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0009/
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29988
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=11d171f1910b508a81d21faa087ad1af573407d8