CVE-2022-48065 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Binutils

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime8 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GNU BinutilsFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedAug 22
Latest updateFeb 26

Description

GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDgnu/binutils< 2.40
▶Debiangnu/binutils< 2.40-2+2

Also affects: Fedora 38, 39

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-gx78-cf6r-h3p3: GNU Binutils before 2↗2023-08-22
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CVEList
CVE-2022-48065: GNU Binutils before 2↗2023-08-22
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OSV
CVE-2022-48065: GNU Binutils before 2↗2023-08-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
GNU binutils vulnerabilities↗2024-02-26
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Microsoft
GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability var the function find_abstract_instance in dwarf2.c.↗2023-08-08
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Red Hat
binutils: memory leak in find_abstract_instance() in dwarf2.c↗2022-12-21
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Debian
CVE-2022-48065: binutils - GNU Binutils before 2.40 was discovered to contain a memory leak vulnerability v...↗2022
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CVE-2022-48065 — GNU Binutils vulnerability | cvebase