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CVE-2023-1972

Date: May 17, 2023

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646

Url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-1972

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1972

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1972

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-1972

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
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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