Memory leak in Binutils - CVE-2022-47008

Vulnerability identifier: #VU83860

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-47008

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak within the make_tempdir() and make_tempname() function in bucomm.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim to pass specially crafted data to the application and and perform denial of service attack.

Binutils
Voice Gateway
Ubuntu
openEuler
binutils (Ubuntu package)
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package)
binutils-debuginfo
binutils-devel
binutils-debugsource
binutils-help
binutils
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Isolation Segment
Platform Automation Toolkit
IBM Sterling Order Management

Install updates from vendor's website.

Binutils - update to 2.39
Voice Gateway - update to 1.0.8.12
binutils (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.34-6ubuntu1.8, 2.38-4ubuntu2.5
binutils-multiarch (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.34-6ubuntu1.8, 2.38-4ubuntu2.5
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 2.10.65
binutils-debuginfo - update to 2.34-26
binutils-devel - update to 2.34-26
binutils-debugsource - update to 2.34-26
binutils-help - update to 2.34-26
binutils - update to 2.34-26
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 3.0.19, 4.0.11
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 3.0.19, 4.0.11
Platform Automation Toolkit - addressed in versions 4.0.13, 4.1.13, 4.2.8, 4.3.5
IBM Sterling Order Management - update to 10.0.2403.1

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29255%20

• Multiple vulnerabilities in GNU Binutils
• VMware Tanzu products update for GNU binutils
• Ubuntu update for binutils
• Ubuntu update for binutils
• openEuler update for binutils
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Sterling Order Management
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Voice Gateway