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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-47008 json

An issue was discovered function make_tempdir, and make_tempname in bucomm.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows attackers to cause a denial…

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-49786

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered function make_tempdir, and make_tempname in bucomm.c in Binutils 2.34 thru 2.38, allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory leaks.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-47008

  • binutils Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.34-6ubuntu1.8
  • binutils Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.38-4ubuntu2.5
  • binutils Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm5
  • binutils Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm9
  • binutils Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-47008

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • binutils CBL-Mariner 2.0 2.37-9

azure linux advisories AZL-28053

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2022-47008 updated cvss 5.5

binutils: memory leak in make_tempdir() and make_tempname() in bucomm.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 binutils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gdb, binutils, gdb-gdbserver
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 binutils, mingw-binutils, mingw32-binutils, mingw64-binutils, gcc-toolset-13-gdb, mingw-binutils-generic, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 binutils, binutils-gold, mingw-binutils, mingw32-binutils, mingw64-binutils, mingw-binutils-generic, +4 more
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gdb, gdb-headless, gdb-gdbserver, gcc-toolset-11-gdb, gcc-toolset-12-gdb, gcc-toolset-11-gdb-gdbserver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gdb, gdb-minimal, gdb-headless, gdb-gdbserver, gcc-toolset-12-gdb, gcc-toolset-13-gdb
    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

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29255%20 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
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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