CVE-2022-4285

Summary

CVECVE-2022-4285
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-27 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:57:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Gnu Binutils All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-15) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
sourceware.org Git - binutils-gdb.git/commit MISC sourceware.org
29699 – Segmentation fault caused by null pointer dereference in nm-new, _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string, elf.c:1969 MISC sourceware.org
2150768 – (CVE-2022-4285) CVE-2022-4285 binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
sourceware.org Git - binutils-gdb.git/commit sourceware.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160693 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for gcc-toolset-12-binutils (ELSA-2023-2873)
  • 161038 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (ELSA-2023-6236)
  • 161113 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (ELSA-2023-6593)
  • 183849 Debian Security Update for binutils (CVE-2022-4285)
  • 199995 Ubuntu Security Notification for GNU binutils Vulnerabilities (USN-6544-1)
  • 241474 Red Hat Update for gcc-toolset-12-binutils (RHSA-2023:2873)
  • 241553 Red Hat Update for devtoolset-12-binutils (RHSA-2023:3269)
  • 242263 Red Hat Update for binutils (RHSA-2023:6236)
  • 242321 Red Hat Update for binutils (RHSA-2023:6593)
  • 242618 Red Hat Update for binutils (RHSA-2023:7394)
  • 283548 Fedora Security Update for insight (FEDORA-2022-07d49bd9a8)
  • 283549 Fedora Security Update for insight (FEDORA-2022-3efcae2a46)
  • 283598 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2023-11256597a8)
  • 283599 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2023-3d9f2bed46)
  • 378753 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for gcc-toolset-12-binutils (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0086)
  • 672918 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-1755)
  • 672947 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-1777)
  • 710758 Gentoo Linux GNU Binutils Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-15)
  • 754877 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1)
  • 754965 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for binutils (SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1)
  • 905320 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for binutils (13112)
  • 905322 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for binutils (13114)
  • 905611 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for binutils (13114-1)
  • 905664 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for binutils (13112-1)
  • 906584 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for binutils (13112-3)
  • 906615 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for binutils (13114-3)
  • 941085 AlmaLinux Security Update for gcc-toolset-12-binutils (ALSA-2023:2873)
  • 941338 AlmaLinux Security Update for binutils (ALSA-2023:6236)
  • 941367 AlmaLinux Security Update for binutils (ALSA-2023:6593)
  • 961068 Rocky Linux Security Update for binutils (RLSA-2023:6236)
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