MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft

CVE-2022-48064

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2023-Aug: 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.

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Published: 2023-08-08 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-14
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2023-08-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 gdb 11.2-5 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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