GHSA-8hc2-5qvv-jj67

GHSA-8hc2-5qvv-jj67 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022

dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29, does not validate the DW_AT_name data type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bfd_hash_hash NULL pointer dereference, or out-of-bounds access, and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to scan_unit_for_symbols and parse_comp_unit.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

May 17, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory

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