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CVE-2022-48064
GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.61%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.61% · top 50% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Bh=8f2c64de86bc3d7556121fe296dd679000283931 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-d94be55511 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0008/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-8d0913f986 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-89ade611ee (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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