CVE-2023-1972

Summary

CVECVE-2023-1972
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-05-17 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-30 10:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Binutils All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2185646 – (CVE-2023-1972) CVE-2023-1972 binutils: Illegal memory access when accessing a zer0-lengthverdef table MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
GNU Binutils: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-15) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
30285 – objdump heap-buffer-overflow in _bfd_elf_print_private_bfd_data() at /binutils-gdb/bfd/elf.c:1844 (SIGSEGV) MISC sourceware.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199363 Ubuntu Security Notification for GNU binutils Vulnerabilities (USN-6101-1)
  • 283932 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2023-b667dbdb59)
  • 283933 Fedora Security Update for insight (FEDORA-2023-b4d1469b54)
  • 283934 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2023-d6560c7198)
  • 283936 Fedora Security Update for insight (FEDORA-2023-5d51a42413)
  • 284171 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2023-e8d8d8cca0)
  • 284174 Fedora Security Update for insight (FEDORA-2023-8a6a30c142)
  • 355467 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for binutils : ALAS2023-2023-229
  • 503101 Alpine Linux Security Update for binutils
  • 505855 Alpine Linux Security Update for binutils
  • 673349 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2633)
  • 674079 EulerOS Security Update for binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2675)
  • 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)
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