Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cross-ppc-binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-CROSSPPCBINUTILS-2733759
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Oct 2019

Introduced: 24 Oct 2019

CVE-2018-20623  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cross-ppc-binutils package and not the cross-ppc-binutils package as distributed by SLES.

In GNU Binutils 2.31.1, there is a use-after-free in the error function in elfcomm.c when called from the process_archive function in readelf.c via a crafted ELF file.