CVE-2022-44840

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Binutils
Timeline
PublishedAug 22
Latest updateJan 15

Description

Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDgnu/binutils< 2.40
▶Debianbinutils< 2.40-2+2
▶Ubuntubinutils< 2.34-6ubuntu1.8+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
binutils vulnerabilities↗2024-01-15
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CVEList
CVE-2022-44840: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2↗2023-08-22
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GHSA
GHSA-6hf6-4792-jww6: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2↗2023-08-22
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OSV
CVE-2022-44840: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2↗2023-08-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2024-01-15
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Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2023-09-18
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Red Hat
binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in find_section_in_set() in readelf.c↗2022-10-30
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Debian
CVE-2022-44840: binutils - Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function ...↗2022
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CVE-2022-44840 (HIGH CVSS 7.8) | Heap buffer overflow vulnerability | cvebase.io