OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gnu	Binutils

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

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

History

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-10-03T15:30:37.227Z

Reserved: 2022-12-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-48063

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T15:02:36.628Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-22T19:16:30.867

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:56:28.040

Link: CVE-2022-48063

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-48063 - Bugzilla

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