Resource Exhaustion Affecting binutils package, versions <2.38-4ubuntu2.6
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EPSS
0.04% (11th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2204-BINUTILS-5854023
- published 24 Aug 2023
- disclosed 22 Aug 2023
Introduced: 22 Aug 2023
CVE-2022-48063 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:22.04
binutils
to version 2.38-4ubuntu2.6 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.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-48063
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
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