CVE-2023-1972

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: May 17, 2023
Updated: Jan 22, 2025
Reserved: Apr 10, 2023

Description

A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected Products

Product	Versions
binutilsn/a	affected at least binutils 2.40Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
GLSA-202309-15vendor-advisory

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