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An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jan 27, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 27, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 27, 2023
Last updated Sep 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-4285

GHSA ID

GHSA-qx33-qxjc-p36p

Source code

No known source code

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