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CVE-2023-1972

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1972

Severity

6.5

Medium

CVSS V3

Description

A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. This may lead to loss of availability.

References

  • https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-2g36-84g3-35r2
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gxpx-hfgx-m75g
  • https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-15
  • https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30285
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185646

Affected packages

Safe Source for Open Source™
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