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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2022-47696 json

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via funct…

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-50455

cvss
7.8
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 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.

Patch / fix

  • gnu binutils 2.39.3
  • binutils Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.39.50.20221208-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-47696

  • binutils Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.9
  • binutils Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 2.34-6ubuntu1.5
  • binutils Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 2.38-4ubuntu2.2
  • binutils Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.24-5ubuntu14.2+esm1
  • binutils Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-47696

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 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

  • crash CBL-Mariner 2.0 8.0.1-4
  • gdb CBL-Mariner 2.0 11.2-6
  • crash Azure Linux 3.0 8.0.4-4

azure linux advisories AZL-28503AZL-28504AZL-34635

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-2022-47696 updated

binutils: segmentation fault in compare_symbols() in objdump.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
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29677 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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