CVE-2022-38533
MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 25, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:56 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraBinutils
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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- 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
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2
References (9)
Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0007/Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29482#c2CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-787
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