CVE-2023-1972
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-17 00:00
Modified
2025-01-22 19:45
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a binutils Version: affected at least binutils 2.40
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