SB2022120549 - Denial of service in GNU Binutils
Published: December 5, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022120549
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38533)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the bfd_getl32() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim to process a specially crafted file, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and crash the application.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/