CVE-2023-1972

Name
CVE-2023-1972
Description
A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.
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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646
MISC https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* binutils >= None <= 2.40
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* binutils >= 2.35 <= 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
binutils 3.18-main 2.40-r7 Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org> fixed