GHSA-wp88-2cgw-238q

GHSA-wp88-2cgw-238q PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. An invalid memory access exists in _bfd_stab_section_find_nearest_line in syms.c. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ELF file.

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 13, 2022 CVE Published
May 1, 2026 Security Advisory

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