In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfdgetl32 when called from the stripmain function in…
CVE-2022-38533
In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfdgetl32 when called from the stripmain function in strip-new via a crafted file.
Assessment
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- Severity
- Unscored
- EPSS
- 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 25 August 2022
- Last updated
- 2 November 2026
- Assigner
- mitre
At the source
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29495
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d
- https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
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