Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.41-150100.7.46.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-BINUTILS-5922681
  • published28 Sept 2023
  • disclosed27 Sept 2023

Introduced: 27 Sep 2023

CVE-2022-48063  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 binutils to version 2.41-150100.7.46.1 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 SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

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