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rlsa-2023:2873

Vulnerability from osv_rocky

Published

2026-06-28 00:01

Modified

2026-07-12 00:06

Summary

Moderate: gcc-toolset-12-binutils security update

Details

The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities.

Security Fix(es):

binutils: NULL pointer dereference in _bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string leads to segfault (CVE-2022-4285)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Credits

Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation

Red Hat

References

URL

Type

	https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:2873	ADVISORY
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150768	REPORT

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CVE-2022-4285 (GCVE-0-2022-4285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-28 15:41

Summary

An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-28 15:40 UTC

CWE

CWE-476

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29699
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150768
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-…
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	binutils	Affected: binutils 2.39-7

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