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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-35206 json

Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c.

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-38098

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Null pointer dereference vulnerability in Binutils readelf 2.38.50 via function read_and_display_attr_value in file dwarf.c.

Patch / fix

  • binutils Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.38.50.20220627-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-35206

  • binutils SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +18 more 2.41-150100.7.46.1
  • cross-rx-binutils openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.41-150100.7.46.1
  • cross-arm-binutils openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.41-150100.7.46.1
  • cross-avr-binutils openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.41-150100.7.46.1
  • cross-ppc-binutils openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.41-150100.7.46.1
  • cross-spu-binutils openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.41-150100.7.46.1
  • cross-hppa-binutils openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.41-150100.7.46.1
  • cross-i386-binutils openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.41-150100.7.46.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1SUSE-SU-2023:3695-1

  • binutils openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.41-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13411-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-35206 updated

binutils: NULL pointer dereference in read_and_display_attr_value() in dwarf.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 binutils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gdb, binutils, gdb-gdbserver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gdb, binutils, gdb-headless, gdb-gdbserver, mingw-binutils, mingw32-binutils, +11 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gdb, binutils, gdb-minimal, gdb-headless, binutils-gold, gdb-gdbserver, +10 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29290 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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