CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-44840
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils (< 2.40)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29732 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory