CVE-2022-48063

Summary

CVECVE-2022-48063
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-22 19:16:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:56:00 UTC
DescriptionGNU 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Binutils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
29924 – Huge memoy allocation in objdump MISC sourceware.org
sourceware.org Git - binutils-gdb.git/commit MISC sourceware.org
August 2023 GNU Binutils Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.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

  • 199808 Ubuntu Security Notification for GNU binutils Vulnerabilities (USN-6413-1)
  • 200137 Ubuntu Security Notification for GNU binutils Vulnerabilities (USN-6655-1)
  • 673433 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3001)
  • 673470 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3200)
  • 673545 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3292)
  • 673613 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3024)
  • 673629 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3165)
  • 673799 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2024-1257)
  • 673842 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-3324)
  • 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)
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