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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48064 json

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain an excessive memory consumption vulnerability via the function bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_l…

published 2023-08-22 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-50778

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • gnu binutils 2.40
  • binutils Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.40-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48064

  • gdb SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP6 +5 more 14.2-150400.15.20.1
  • gdb-testresults openSUSE Leap 15.6, openSUSE Leap 15.5 14.2-150400.15.20.1
  • gdb SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS +4 more 14.2-150100.8.45.1
  • gdb SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS +4 more 13.2-150100.8.39.1
  • gdb SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5 +3 more 13.2-150400.15.14.1
  • gdb-testresults openSUSE Leap 15.5 13.2-150400.15.14.4
  • gdb SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 13.2-2.23.1
  • binutils SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1 +18 more 2.41-150100.7.46.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:4414-1SUSE-SU-2024:4413-1SUSE-SU-2024:0899-1SUSE-SU-2024:0898-1SUSE-SU-2024:0319-1SUSE-SU-2023:3825-1

  • binutils openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.41-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13411-1

  • gdb CBL-Mariner 2.0 11.2-6

azure linux advisories AZL-28589

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-2022-48064 updated

binutils: excessive memory consumption in _bfd_dwarf2_find_nearest_line_with_alt() in dwarf2.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

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29922 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-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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