Use of Uninitialized Variable The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package binutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BINUTILS-3318113
  • published10 Feb 2023
  • disclosed12 Dec 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Dec 2022

CVE-2023-25588  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade binutils to version 2.40 or higher.

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable such that the field the_bfd of asymbol is uninitialized in the bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab function.

Note: This issue only affects binutils versions that have been configured to support the Mach-O file format.