CVE-2022-4285

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Jan 27, 2023
Updated: Mar 28, 2025
Reserved: Dec 5, 2022

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected Products

Product	Versions
binutilsn/a	binutils 2.39-7Affected

References

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-gdb.git%3Bh=5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70
GLSA-202309-15vendor-advisory

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