CVE-2022-47696 Affecting binutils package, versions <2.34-6ubuntu1.5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-BINUTILS-5854136
  • published24 Aug 2023
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2022-47696  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 binutils to version 2.34-6ubuntu1.5 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

CVSS Scores

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