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CVE-2022-4285

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: January 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:20 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraEnterprise LinuxBinutils

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

An illegal memory access flaw was found in the binutils package. Parsing an ELF file containing corrupt symbol version information may result in a denial of service. This issue is the result of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-16599.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
37
Binutils· Gnu
95%
2.35 ≤ v < 2.39-72.39-7
Affected range stops below 2.39-7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Enterprise Linux· Red Hatrpm
95%
6.07.08.09.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (4)

ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150768
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29699
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=5c831a3c7f3ca98d6aba1200353311e1a1f84c70

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.5MEDIUMCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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