CVE-2023-25588

Published Sep 14, 2023

Last updated 3 months ago

CVSS medium 4.7

Overview

Description: A flaw was found in Binutils. The field `the_bfd` of `asymbol`struct is uninitialized in the `bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab` function, which may lead to an application crash and local denial of service.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 1.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com: CWE-457
nvd@nist.gov: CWE-908

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

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  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:binutils:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "042A4D5D-1779-4FF8-B831-5BEB24433794"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References