CVE-2022-38533
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.5 · Out-of-bounds write
5.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482Patch
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2Patch
- https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29495