CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-48063
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
GNU 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.
Affected configurations
• gnu binutils (< 2.40)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/ security.netapp.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd sourceware.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/ security.netapp.com
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd sourceware.org