Memory Leak Affecting binutils package, versions <2.38-4ubuntu2.6
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2204-BINUTILS-5855103
- published 24 Aug 2023
- disclosed 22 Aug 2023
Introduced: 22 Aug 2023
CVE-2022-48065 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 a memory leak vulnerability var the function find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-48065
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29925
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=d28fbc7197ba0e021a43f873eff90b05dcdcff6a
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLZXZXFX2ZWTDU2QZUSZG36LZZVTKUVG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KGSKF4GH7425S6XFDQMWTJGD5U47BAZN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLZXZXFX2ZWTDU2QZUSZG36LZZVTKUVG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KGSKF4GH7425S6XFDQMWTJGD5U47BAZN/
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=d28fbc7197ba0e021a43f873eff90b05dcdcff6a
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