NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.38-4ubuntu2.4
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2204-BINUTILS-3160540
- published 7 Dec 2022
- disclosed 27 Jan 2023
Introduced: 7 Dec 2022
CVE-2022-4285 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:22.04 binutils to version 2.38-4ubuntu2.4 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:22.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-4285
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150768
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29699
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70
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