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CVE-2022-48064

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 22, 2023 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 05:14 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFedoraBinutilsONTAP Select Deploy administration utility

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
PoC

Description

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt at dwarf2.c. The attacker could supply a crafted ELF file and cause a DNS attack.

Affected

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

Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
3738
Binutils· Gnu
95%
v < 2.40
Affected range stops below 2.40, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility· NetApp
95%
All versions

References (6)

Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3XKYUAIORNQ32IZUOZFURECZKEXOHX7Z/
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KGSKF4GH7425S6XFDQMWTJGD5U47BAZN/
Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NSUNHSOWWLLNGHRM5TUBNCJHEYHPDX2M/
Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8f2c64de86bc3d7556121fe296dd679000283931

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCNot automatablePartial impact

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

CVSS

5.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770

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