CVE-2022-48063

Name
CVE-2022-48063
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
MISC https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* binutils >= None < 2.40

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
binutils 3.17-main 2.39-r2 Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org> possibly vulnerable
binutils 3.16-main 2.38-r3 Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org> possibly vulnerable
binutils 3.15-main 2.37-r3 Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org> possibly vulnerable