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CVE-2022-38533

Date: August 24, 2022

In GNU Binutils before 2.40, there is a heap-buffer-overflow in the error function bfd_getl32 when called from the strip_main function in strip-new via a crafted file.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (17)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38533

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2

Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d

Url: https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/commit/45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d

Url: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=45d92439aebd0386ef8af76e1796d08cfe457e1d

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7MTEHT3G6YKJ7F7MSGWYSI4UM3XBAYXZ/

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29495

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-38533

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-38533

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38533

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6AKZ2DTS3ATVN5PANNVLKLE5OP4OF25Q/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-38533

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

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