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CVE-2022-45703

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Date: August 22, 2023

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function display_debug_section in file readelf.c.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (6)

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29799

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0003/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-45703

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-45703

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-45703

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-45703

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version binutils-2_40

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

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