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CVE-2022-38533 (GCVE-0-2022-38533)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-25 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 10:54
VLAI
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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