Out-of-bounds Write Affecting binutils-devel-32bit package, versions <2.39-150100.7.40.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-BINUTILSDEVEL32BIT-3136866
  • published22 Nov 2022
  • disclosed21 Nov 2022

Introduced: 21 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-38533  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 binutils-devel-32bit to version 2.39-150100.7.40.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils-devel-32bit package and not the binutils-devel-32bit package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

CVSS Scores

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