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CVE-2022-48063

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Date: August 21, 2023

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

Language: C

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Related Resources (5)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=75393a2d54bcc40053e5262a3de9d70c5ebfbbfd
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48063
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29924
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-48063

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
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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